In taking responsibility, organizations will claim and own their actions. Some organizations make the necessary adjustments to delineate roles and responsibilities within their structure. However, while important and even needed, it does not ever guarantee given expectations or outcomes.
Ultimately, responsibility is an individual initiative, and we cannot always assume that all accept responsibility. We can only act on what we control, and no one else is responsible for our behavior. It is our choice to be part of any undertaking, to change it, or even to refute it altogether since our initial responsibility is to ourselves.
If we are willing to take the credit, let us be quick to own shortcomings and failures. These do not belong to others but are all yours to keep.
Like the lion and sheep, many will desire to be a lion, yet it is simpler to be a sheep since, as sheep, you are not alone or accountable.
