Most of you reading this will have come across AR, for “Augmented Reality”. This is where AI is used to help you to “see” and perhaps later “hear”, “taste” and “feel” what you might be able to perceive should your environment be altered. For example, a furniture store might include AR to help you visualize how different pieces of furniture in different colours, shades, fabrics and so forth might better suit your preferences for your living environment, whatsoever that may be. AR, as in “Augmented Reality” is of course a very useful tool and helps people with planning for what they want to achieve, whether individually or corporately. Several years ago, I heard one of my former bosses use the phrase “Abscond Responsibility”, referring to how people in administrative roles tend to push blame for the deletrious effects of their decisions foisted on people having to execute them. However, if you were to think about various versions of responses from people who actually have to carry out whatever decisions others make on their behalf, such as “We the UNfortunate. Led by the UNqualified. To do the UNnecessary. For the UNgrateful”, you would also see another version of AR, as in “Absconding Responsibility”. If leaders make bad decisions and foist those decisions on the executors, with the leaders thinking that they are in a position to blame the executors for bad execution when the bad news comes in, then it is also up to the executors to push back and knock some sense into the leaders before the train wreck happens. AR, both as in “Augmented Reality” and in “Absconding Responsibility” works both ways. If AR is augmenting a false reality, then those who are more familiar with the actual reality are responsible to ensure that true reality is also augmented and push the false reality out. I have just had a glance at news about Singapore’s plans for a “Long Island” off Singapore’s East Coast. There are plans for it, with all the good reasons, and there are of course calls for protection of wildlife and so forth. Now, I have absolutely no quarrel with protecting wildlife but not simply for the sake of protecting wildlife. Both the proponents and objectors to Singapore’s “Long Island” need AR, “Augmented Reality” to get the whole picture, including Costs and Benefits. If not, then both sides would be indulging in AR, “Absconding Responsibility”.

I’m viewing and re-viewing a conversation between the Hon John Anderson and Dr James Orr titled “When Therapy Governs Society”. This post is a quick shoot emerging from the segment on “Sin to Syndrome”. I am working on giving a full treatment to my takeaways from the video, but that will take a few hours, so look out for that in the coming days. In the meantime, do take a bit of time to watch this very interesting conversation. We’ll come back to it in another post.

Have you considered how AR would augment your journey towards what you want in your life and business? Then make sure you take full responsibility for your beliefs, decisions and actions. You’re welcome!

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