Just as an athletic team performs better when all players work together as a team rather than as individual stars and benchwarmers, communities and societies perform better when everyone recognizes a shared responsibility for success. People who recognize this are less likely to blame problems on the shortcomings of individuals, more likely to search for the underlying sources of problems, and therefore more likely to find long-term solutions to problems.
The postings below have been tagged as related to our progressive commitment to shared responsibility. In some cases they show positive examples of people putting the principle of shared responsibility to work. In other cases they show people who are slowing progress by stereotyping others and declaring that problems are all due to individual shortcomings, ignoring community issues and institutional problems.
