The Responsibility Process: Unlocking Your Natural Ability to Live and Lead with Power

FREEDOM, POWER, and CHOICELeadership is innate. The Responsibility Process proves it.The Responsibility Process is a natural mental pattern that helps you process thoughts about taking or avoiding responsibility.How you navigate it determines whether you are leading toward meaningful results or just marking time.This book gives you precision tools, practices, and leadership truths to navigate The Responsibility Process and lead yourself and others to freedom, power, and choice. FROM THE FOREWORD BY HENRY KIMSEY-HOUSE The Responsibility Process offers powerful coaching. Christopher doesn't just define the problem and then leave you with it the way some books do. He provides abundant tools, practices, and wisdom for taking ownership, solving problems, and developing your consciousness as a leader. I know you will enjoy this book and live a better life for having read it.-HENRY KIMSEY-HOUSE, co-founder & lead designer of CTI, co-author of Co-Active Coaching & Co-Active Leadership ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS This is an important book. The discovery and development of The Responsibility Process is a contribution to the psychology of success and happiness.-DEREK SIVERS, founder of CD Baby, author of Anything You Want This book changed how I talk about responsibility in my training courses and with my teen daughters. An ownership mindset is critical to business agility. Avery brilliantly dissects how ownership (or the lack of it) works in the mind and what to do about it to lead yourself and others to freedom, happiness, and results that matter.-MIKE COHN, author of Succeeding with Agile CONTENTSIntroduction: A More Productive Way to Live and LeadPart I. Personal Responsibility in Everyday Life1. What is Personal Responsibility?2. Responsibility != AccountabilityPart II. Three Tools for Understanding and Practicing Responsibility3. The Responsibility Process4. The Three Keys to Responsibility5. The Catch Sooner GamePart III. Practicing and Mastering Responsibility6. Lead Yourself First7. Sharing Responsibility, Sharing Leadership8. Developing Responsibility in Others9. Leading the Organization of ChoiceConclusion: On the Road to Mastery