Socio Analytica

Football: Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals has just changed is name (legally) to Chad Ocho Cinqo. His jersey number is 85, and fans have called him Ocho Cinqo for a while now. However, I think there is a certain level at which some level of mental illness is involved here. I have heard of him and questionable decision making in the past. But I think this is the case of a lot of money, lot of ego and people around them that will not say ‘No’.

I’m not sure how we could do it, but it seems to me that some level of accountability and responsibility should be involved here. I suppose that we as a society are largely to blame. We give these guys a lot of money to entertain us, and then do not put in place needed elements to make sure that they can understand the context of what they have.

People are telling them that they are great for most of their lives, and then give them money and the keys to the kingdom. So if there is mental illness involved it can get exaggerated and unchecked. I am not sure if Chad “Ocho Cinqo” has any mental illness but the fact remains that this behavior is exaggerated. Mike Tyson is probably one of the biggest examples of this out of control. Also, one of the saddest.

Is there a way to help this situation without denying civil rights?

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Accountability and Responsibility, we hear about it all the time. Like trust it has been dummied down. It often means little more than managing milestones and meeting targets. It comes off as very transactional. I feel like my kids’ Tae Kwon Do instructors look at this with a much higher level. It is about “personal” responsibility and “personal” accountability. That somehow that if you violate this you have let people down at deeper more profound level. In the corporate reality, You might lose your job, but it is not like personally there is a one has deeply violated this, or maybe more importantly that one is rewarded for maintaining this high level of respect.

Corporately it is really achievement and success that is driving people. But for some reason it is under the guise of accountability and responsibility. No one is going to fall on their sword because of a missed target.

Accountability should really feel like you are piercing the soul if you violate it. I am not suggesting that there is no integrity in business and that people do not take their reputation and their relationships seriously, but all too often business is watering the definition to where it becomes meaningless.

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