Responsibility OCD involves an exaggerated sense of responsibility and a fear of unintentionally causing harm to others. To some extent, we all feel responsible in life, whether for our loved ones’ ...

For all of us, failure can seem to be a stunning and unexpected upset. Assuming denial is impossible, the natural tendency is to blame the outcome on some transient situational characteristic (e.g., ...

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. The pyramid of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is ...

Interested in these topics? Go here. In his response to my recent post, Sandeep Gautam raises two interesting counter-arguments (or "quibbles," as he calls them). The purpose of the present post is to ...

But simply understanding the need for distributed responsibility is not sufficient if leaders don’t understand what it means to demonstrate responsibility themselves. One way of demonstrating ...

It’s time that we fix a flaw in our mental health model: its denial of personal responsibility. Mental health is not hard-wired at birth; it’s a set of learned skills. Help is nice, but it only helps ...

Social responsibility is a commitment by a business to benefit the community or world in a specific, actionable way. When a business decides they want to implement a social-responsibility program, ...

The post-financial crisis world is becoming a more business-critical one. There are unprecedented levels of scrutiny of large corporations and their actions and those who fall foul of the law face a ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...