It was a great Ask Christopher Avery Q&A session today. You can listen on the player here. The questions I addressed are below. Ask your question now for the next monthly session of Ask Christopher Avery. Jim: What is the most effective way to help a person move out of the “deep victim" stance into a more self-responsible way of...

I appreciate you. And I appreciate your interest in how personal and shared responsibility works in the mind. People like you joined me today for a solid hour of my best information about leading, teaming, and succeeding through 100% ownership. It's live, no-cost, and completely driven by your questions. You were there right? Or are you already enjoying the life,...

Michelle Ward, the When-I-Grow-Up-Coach, wrote these interview questions just for me. It's part of a Twitter & Blog game. If you want to play, please read the interview rules at the end of this post. I'm especially interested in interviewing leaders with a Responsibility Practice. And now, for Michelle's questions: What’s your definition of “responsibility”? First, thanks for asking such...

Friends on Twitter have been retweeting The End of the Financial World as We Know by Michael Lewis and David Einhorn in the Sunday New York Times Op-Ed page. And I've been "head-down" since Thanksgiving reinventing our approach and working on multiple web, product, and service launches to support you with the Responsibility Redefined™ mission in 2009 (I promise there...

Self help teachers, personal growth authors and motivational speakers tell us we can accomplish anything we set our minds to, happiness and success are choices we can make, and we aren't always in charge of what happens to us, but we are in charge of how we respond to what happens to us. But it's often difficult to believe them,...

"When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are...

Strange Attractors I skipped the Toronto Agile 2008 conference this year in  August. But when the call for proposals was out back in January I heard from Portia Tung that she'd read my article on Personal Agility and wished I would present Responsibility Redefined™ in Toronto. I appreciated that since I'd presented at the 2004-2007 conferences. Alas, I told her...

Here's the audio mp3 replay from my September 5th (as opposed to 9th, "every second Tuesday") Ask Christopher Avery show on Blog Talk Radio. I recorded it early as I'm on the road today. Ask me anything at www.AskChristopherAvery.com Get show reminders for my Blog Talk Radio shows. Just click this button and then subscribe to the show reminders at...

We're incrementally developing a social media strategy. These are the places you can currently find me: Follow me on Twitter Let's be Facebook friends Link up on LinkedIn Subscribe to my shows or show feeds at Blog Talk Radio (Follow and Favorite me there too!) Subscribe and recommend Responsibility Redefined videos at YouTube As we figure out how to participate...

Ask Christopher Avery, my monthly "first Tuesday" Blog Talk Radio show (which you are listening to right now), this month addressed six important questions submitted by listeners. Maybe I'll answer your question next time... Q: Why do so many folks refuse to accept personal responsibility, preferring to pass blame onto their spouse, business partner, children, etc.? Q: Any suggestions for...