BLAMESTORMING


blamestorming [名] brainstormingのパロディー。非難囂々、責任転嫁が吹き荒れる非建設的なディスカッション。
storm [名] 嵐
blame [名] 非難、責め、責任
brainstorming [名]ブレインストーミング 。自己研鑽。柔軟な思考、従来の考え方に捕われない思考で、頭脳を使うディスカッション。各自がアイディアを持ち寄り、アイディアを洗練して行く方法。
言い得て妙な造語を集めた「2007年のオフィス用語に加える主要20語 (Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace 2007)」の第三弾、blamestorming。Blamestormingとは「Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.（グループで座り、なんで締め切りに遅れたかやプロジェクトが失敗したか、そして誰に責任があるのか話し合う事。）」だそうです。もちろん、brainstorming (頭脳を使うディスカッション）のパロディーです。会議が建設的なbrainstormingから、非建設的で時間の無駄になるblamestormingにならないようにしないといけませんね。ちなみに1997にWord Spy という辞書に紹介されているので、少しずつ定着して来ている言葉かも。

blamestorming

Discussion in which participants attempt to apportion blame for a particular event. The term is said to have surfaced first in the digital economy magazine Wired and is a corruption of brainstorming.


September 2006 Conflict Hack: Blamestorming Is a Waste

Originally coined by Wired Magazine’s Gareth Branwyn, blamestorming is meeting to discuss why something went wrong (a failed project, a missed deadline, a PR mess, a tech disaster) and who is responsible. In blamestorming, “who is responsible” is the real focus.

This is an example, courtesy of the Urban Dictionary:
I just got out of a three hour blamestorming session with IT about the server failure last week; Someone’s going to end up in unemployment over this.

What a waste of everyone’s energy. When you assign blame, you act to protect yourself at the expense of another. In most workplaces, there’s rarely one person or department to blame for any significant problem and trying to find one is a signal of poor problem solving.

Instead of blamestorming next time something goes wrong, spend your energy thinking about the contributions that many people or departments probably made. Individually, those contributions may have had little impact, but collectively they created a problem.

For a sad example of from this week’s news, consider the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington, Kentucky. Initial information suggests a confluence of errors, any one alone of which may not have resulted in disaster. Together, they took 49 lives. Is it really helpful to identify the one person or organization for primary blame? How will correcting that one error prevent a confluence of the other errors in the future?

You’ll find that the shift from blame to contribution, once you’ve proved that’s really how you want to work, motivates creativity, personal responsibility and, better yet, joint problem solving. Blame just builds defensiveness, anger, denial and avoidance.

Let go of the blame game,
Tammy

Posted: 日 - 1月 21, 2007 at 12:18 午前          

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