His response reminded me of the famous 'Asoh Defense', when Captain Kohei Asoh accidently put a perfectly good plane into the water on approach to SFO [0] > As

His response reminded me of the famous 'Asoh Defense', when Captain Kohei Asoh accidently put a perfectly good plane into the water on approach to SFO [0] > Asoh, when asked by the NTSB about the landing, reportedly replied, "As you Americans say, I f__d up." In his 1988 book The Abilene Paradox, author Jerry B. Harvey termed this frank acceptance of blame the "Asoh defense", and the story and term have been taken up by a number of other management theorists. I believe Dave McClure taking responsibility for his mistakes in such a strong way is a step towards repairing the damage caused by his inappropriate behavior. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_.22Asoh_defense.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_.2...