It is amazing how people fear responsibility. At
times, even the responsibility to take charge of their own destiny. You get
amazed when you see people evading responsibility in the work-place, yet the
working is about taking responsibility.
The work-place is meant to be the one place
where you excel by creatively and energetically driving whatever responsibility
has been assigned to you. It is the place where you ought to seek to make your
contribution and build your career, even as you contribute to the overall
institutional and public good.
Does this sound lofty? No. You have probably
started giving a hundred and one reasons why this is not possible. You could be
saying things like, “My boss is a hindrance.” You could be blaming ‘my
subordinates,’ ‘the work environment and organization culture,’ or giving a
myriad of other excuses.