Shooting Messengers Makes Us Feel Better But Work Dumber.

The article presents the author's opinions on blaming the bearer of bad news in the business environment. Arguments are presented which suggest that blaming the bearer of bad news doesn't help but we all do it anyway, and that it is a symptom of the ill aimed, trigger happy nature of office blame, and the gulf between knowing a problem and solving it. Case studies of poorly placed blaming in the work place are presented.