Whose To Blame? America? You?

Consider a story about four people named EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY, who all work at the same company.

There was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Now somebody got angry because it was everybody’s job.

Everybody though anybody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody would not do it. In the end, everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done.

Had everybody agreed to a common goal and somebody volunteered to take ownership, anybody would have been happy to help complete the task and the results would have been very different.

Blame and finger-pointing stem from workplace anxiety, conflict, distrust and confusion. In this type of environment, employees talk about rather than to – each other.

And how much more piercing is this story if you are able to consider who is to blame for the current economic collapse, and moral emptiness, and destruction of business and freedom, going on in America today.