Quotes About Accountability

If you're screwing up and people aren't saying anything, that means they have given up.

In a self-organized team, individuals take accountability for managing their own workload, shift work among themselves based on need and best fit, and take responsibility for team effectiveness. Team members have considerable leeway in how they deliver results, they are self-disciplined in their accountability for those results, and they work within a flexible framework.

Self-discipline is also built on competence, persistence, and the willingness to assume accountability for results. Competence is more than skill and ability; it's attitude and experience.

Get the right people involved, and self-discipline comes more easily. Get the wrong people, and imposed discipline creeps in, destroying trust and respect.

Practice humility. Shine a light on others, give teammates the credit, volunteer to help, take accountability, seek out feedback, ask others for their opinion, truly listen to people and be open to having your mind changed.

The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

Until the real rulers of America are identified and confronted, no amount of hand-wringing, letter writing, or demonstrating can have any meaningful effect.

A profession that I was once proud to serve in has become a militarized police state. Officers are quicker to draw their guns and use their tanks than to communicate with people to defuse a situation. They love to use their toys, and when they do, people die. The days of the peace officer are long gone, replaced by the militarized police warrior wearing uniforms making them indistinguishable from military personnel.

But large fines don't appear to affect the questionable practices of pharmaceutical companies; such practices will not change until drug executives are singled out for punishment.

We should be careful as to the choices we make. We need to be certain that we are prepared to accept the consequences of those choices.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Regardless of how intelligent we may be, if we make stupid choices, we will suffer the consequences.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

Anytime we fail to bring our best efforts to our job, we diminish our employer, our colleagues, and most significantly, ourselves.

when you make a mistake in business you must address it immediately, own it unconditionally, and fix it as quickly and accurately as possible.

When we don't pull our own weight, we drag down everyone else.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

She has a sign in her office: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.