I think the difference is Heroic Responsibility doesn’t mean taking every problem on your shoulders, it means taking every potential part of the problems you have taken on your shoulders.
A business manager takes Heroic Responsibility for their business, but not the whole world. You can decide to take Heroic Responsibility for the whole world, and that looks a lot like the EA playbook in many ways. At least in my interpretation Heroic Responsibility often involves crossing departments to make sure your problem gets solved, but it doesn’t automatically make everyone else’s problems your problems.
The version of this I would say is “Heroic responsibility is not a thing that’s handed to you. It’s a thing you decide on.”
Every problem in the world exists. You could choose to take heroic responsbility for any of them, or, for an EA style “systematically go down the list of things that seem like they need doing and do them in order or priority.” But, you don’t have to! (If you choose not to take heroic responsbility for things, well, they might not get done, but that doesn’t imply anything else like ‘you failed in a responsibility’)
I think the difference is Heroic Responsibility doesn’t mean taking every problem on your shoulders, it means taking every potential part of the problems you have taken on your shoulders.
A business manager takes Heroic Responsibility for their business, but not the whole world. You can decide to take Heroic Responsibility for the whole world, and that looks a lot like the EA playbook in many ways. At least in my interpretation Heroic Responsibility often involves crossing departments to make sure your problem gets solved, but it doesn’t automatically make everyone else’s problems your problems.
The version of this I would say is “Heroic responsibility is not a thing that’s handed to you. It’s a thing you decide on.”
Every problem in the world exists. You could choose to take heroic responsbility for any of them, or, for an EA style “systematically go down the list of things that seem like they need doing and do them in order or priority.” But, you don’t have to! (If you choose not to take heroic responsbility for things, well, they might not get done, but that doesn’t imply anything else like ‘you failed in a responsibility’)