"Can You Handle Failure?"

Ben Dattner and Robert Hogan write an article titled "Can You Handle Failure?” In this article the authors explain how every person sees a situation in the workplace differently. If a project multiple employees are working on fails, everybody has their own opinion on whose fault it was.

At one point in the article Dattner and Hogan choose to include a list of 11 personalities and how each individual personality describes how the person will react to failure in the workplace. Dattner and Hogan then even chatagorize the 11 types into 3 groups. They are labeled as such; Extrapunitive (Blames Others), Intropunitive (Blames Oneself), and Impunitive (Denies Blame).

I chose to look into this further and I tried to side with one of the 3 types first and I decided that I am impunitive, I tend to deny blame. I have noticed this when working in group projects. I have an attitude that illustrates, "It's not my fault, I'm not going to point the finger at anyone, but it's definitely not my fault."

Furthermore I decided which one of the 5 types of impunitive personality I possessed. I figured I was what the authors called "imaginative: assertive 'daydreamer'". This means that I tend to come up with complex explanations as to why the group effort failed.  I have definitely done that in my life. I know for a fact that I don't like to take the blame for anything and I try not to blame others. "It's nobody's fault" is my thinking in those situations.