The View | At MTR Corp, the buck stops anywhere but the top
Those at the top who don't accept responsibility for what happens on their watch are not doing their job properly, and won't do so in future
It's really simple - if you are going to claim credit for things going well on your watch, you obviously need to accept blame for when things are not going so well.
Moreover, if you are going to be paid far more than people lower down the line, it is only reasonable that you will incur greater risks in performing and keeping your job.
Even the man in the T-shirt running a dai pai dong understands this. That person will be especially sensitive to the notion of risk, because he has his own money at stake and knows that if things go belly up, there will be no point blaming someone else.
You can leverage up this awareness to include practically everyone else who runs a business, with the significant exception of the very grand folk charged with overseeing large public corporations.
The most weasel-like thing a boss can do is to blame subordinates
There are no prizes for guessing that this is a preamble to some reflections on the fallout from the MTR Corporation's cost overrun and delay scandal, which seems to be doing its best to prove there is irony in the words "high speed" when combined with "rail link".