One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.
John KadorApology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
John KadorApology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.
John KadorAn effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
John Kador