A former boss of mine used to say, "Whenever I walk into a situation the first thing I try to figure out is--Who's problem is it?" He said other people were always trying to make him responsible for their problems, so he learned to quickly identify who the responsible party really is.
This saying is somewhat akin to: Not my circus. Not my monkeys. The slight difference is instead of just saying "It's not my problem", which is a valuable stance by itself, he went a step further and determined precisely whose problem it is.
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