Playing The Blame Game

This classic Berenstain Bears story is a perfect way to teach children about taking responsibility for their actions! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Papa and Mama have had it with Brother and Sister constantly blaming each other for everything. Will the cubs ever learn to accept responsibility, or will they just keep playing the blame game? Includes over 50 bonus stickers!

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "spin" activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.

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From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond. What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne Foster answer those questions with a resounding “No!” In Beyond Intelligence, they demonstrate that every child has the ability to succeed — with the right support and guidance. But how can parents provide that support? Matthews and Foster proceed from the assumption that knowledge is power, offering parents an information-packed guide to identifying a child’s ability, fostering creativity, and bolstering effort and persistence. Using case studies and anecdotes from their personal and professional experience, they explore different ways of learning; the links between creativity and intelligence; and how to best to provide emotional and social supports. They offer critical advice on how to work co-operatively with schools and educators, and address how to embrace failures as learning opportunities. Drawing on the latest research in brain development and education theory, Beyond Intelligence is a must-read for today’s parents and educators.

Accompanying CD-ROM has same title as book.

Our society seems to make us believe that we are not responsible for our actions and that someone else is at fault. Even in our educational system, we observe the emergence of Freud's theory in psychology, which asserts that every incorrect conduct can be traced back to childhood memories. We keep playing the blame game and blaming it on what happened in the past - statements like "...because I've been hurt before, I find it difficult to forgive," or "this behaviour has been ingrained in me for such a long time that I can't break it," or "...because everyone is against me, I can't help but feel sorry for myself," and so on. We have trouble taking responsibility! We use blame as a protective mechanism to prevent ourselves from being forced to confront our errors head-on. It is evident in school - "the lecturer failed me or gave me a 'D'; we blame our devices, classmates, and the school environment, but not us. Even in the scriptures, we have a number of scenarios describing the blame game beginning from our first parents - Adam and Eve showing that it is not a game that began today. But owing to the fact that something wrong has lasted for centuries is not a reason to make them a tradition. So, as one realizes that something is wrong, the best step to take is to seek for a way to correct it - which this book is more than ready to address. Without a doubt, we must have experienced events in past times that were outside of our ability to control and for which someone else was responsible, but it does not give us the right to live a life of blame today. Sadly, the culture in which we live makes it profitable as well as acceptable to assign blame. But does this imply that God finds it pleasing and rewarding for humanity? It's human nature to take credit for the good things in our lives and to blame others for the bad things. However, it's important that we recognize that our lives are a reflection of our own thoughts and actions, not the result of external factors. It's easy to blame others when things don't go as planned, but in reality, it's our own choices that have led us to where we are today. Taking responsibility for our lives can be difficult, especially when we're faced with adversity. But it's only when we accept that we are in control of our own actions that we can start making meaningful changes. Blaming others for our failures only perpetuates a cycle of negativity and prevents us from moving forward. In this book titled "The Blame Game", we will carefully look at what it means to play the blame game, the origin of this game, its pros and cons if any, and examples of people who have been involved in the game of blame whether as a player or a victim, who wins the game as well as the flip side of playing the blame game. I bet it's a book you would not just love to read but will find reasons to let your loved ones partake of the richness embedded therein.

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