Software for Your Head

PATTERN: PASSER

PROBLEM

You “go along” with group activities that you don't believe in, increasing cynicism and your own sense of powerlessness for yourself and your team.

Freedom is the center of The Core. It is essential that all activities associated with it retain their volitional nature. This flexibility serves as the basis of accountability. If people do things because they feel that they are expected or in some way required to do so, they give themselves an accountability holiday. In The Core protocols, the right to pass—indeed, the obligation to pass when desired—is always available except as otherwise noted. The flip side of this right is that every individual will be held accountable for his Core-related actions.

Freedom is the center ...