“Leaders have forfeited their right to make excuses.” – Horst Schulze

How many times in the last year have you heard high profile leaders making excuses for something that happened in their organization rather than taking responsibility for it? Statements like:

• “The price of oil fell more than expected and because of the previous government’s actions, we now can’t balance the budget.”
• “It was an engineer working for us that programmed a module to defeat pollution control tests.”
• “Someone falsified and deleted data to make our test results look better”