Quotes About Accountability

We work hard at X to make it safe to fail. Teams kill their ideas as soon as the evidence is on the table because they're rewarded for it. They get applause from their peers. Hugs and high fives from their manager, me in particular. They get promoted for it. We have bonused every single person on teams that ended their projects, from teams as small as two to teams of more than 30.48

They concluded, "psychological safety was far and away the most important of the five dynamics we found."10 Other behaviors were also important, such as setting clear goals and reinforcing mutual accountability, but unless team members felt psychologically safe, the other behaviors were insufficient.

The good teams, I suddenly thought, don't make more mistakes; they report more.

Speaking up is only the first step. The true test is how leaders respond when people actually do speak up. Stage setting and inviting participation indeed build psychological safety. But if a boss responds with anger or disdain as soon as someone steps forward to speak up about a problem, the safety will quickly evaporate. A productive response must be appreciative, respectful, and offer a path forward.

Standing firm is great, kiddo, but so is admitting you made a mistake and fixing it.

A lot of [Republicans] know what [Trump] did was wrong. And they didn't have the courage to say it.

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

Because you were saying them about somebody's son," he snarled. "Why not your own?

He was a sin-eater, someone who cleaned up the sins of others, allowed the government to function without the onus of facing what they'd done.

Officer Rivers," Dad said, his face stony. "You bothered to follow up?" The officer had super-fair skin, pitted a little from old acne, and it turned rosy in embarrassment. "My partner's a dick,

If he stops Arnold, it would be for the good of the people of Boston. Arnold was a wolf in sheep's clothing and needed to be exposed for who he

Train every animal as if it's a killer whale" meant to work with every animal as if you could neither forcibly move it nor dominate it. "It's never the animal's fault" is pretty much what it says: If an animal flounders in training, it's the trainer's fault.

Call it "the New Year's resolution effect"— it's why gyms that were crowded in January are only half full in July and why so many slightly used guitars are available on Craigslist. So

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Do you blame the sword for killing? It is the hand and brain behind it which holds the responsibility!

No matter what they do, our elected representatives don't give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob, steal, cheat, sell themselves, commit perjury, make deals with the Mafia, and what happens to them? The newspapers talk about it for, oh, three days maybe? Then everybody forgets about it. But you—you who exposed the scandal, they won't forget about you, nosirree, you can count on that, and they'll make you pay for it.

Park rangers, including those at the highest ranks, have been disciplined, frivolously indicted, and even fired because they told the truth about living, working, and dying in a national park.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

We may feel like victims but wonder if we are possibly coconspirators. At the very least, we selected a partner with these faults. Might we have also permitted these faults or even fostered them?

Truth is, Dad, I don't blame Judge Parker," he said quietly. "I mouthed off pretty bad in court. He could've given me sixty days in jail, or even ninety. I've got no gripe with him. It was my own fault—all of it.

By allocating so much public sector work to private companies, the Bush administration created a condition in which the nature and practice of government activities could be hidden under the cloak of corporate privacy. This severely limits both financial and political accountability.

Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. Perhaps you can comment out the offending code, or display a "Not Implemented" message, or substitute dummy data instead. Take some action to prevent further damage and to show that you're on top of the situation.