Chapter 9. Taking Responsibility

What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation or thing.

—Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The Transformational Project Paradigm (TPP) is a framework, which, when customized in detail for a company, becomes the context for effective deployment of advanced information technology. Clarity of purpose, acknowledgment of good work, career progression based on accomplishment, objective evaluation of ideas and proposals, and earned trust and confidence among all participants are all vital aspects of the TPP. Innovative staff contributions by trained and qualified personnel are nurtured when loyalty, trust, and compassion are present to foster creative, conceptual thinking.