Quotes About Accountability

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

No one may abuse the truth with impunity.

ve kahin, "elektrik direklerini dikin," dedi, "zaman? gelince, çarm?ha gerilecek ?ehrin bütün suçlular?!" i?te bu kadar çok elektrik dire?i, bu yüzden vard?...

a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It's easy to make a decision when you don't have to look the people in the eye who have to carry it out. And reminding people of that is my purpose with this book.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

A bad leader: • Will lie or stretch the truth • Puts his own interests first • Promotes himself ahead of his people • Is disrespectful • Won't let me do my job • Doesn't pull his share of the load.

will have a wonderful marriage. But if you married the right person yet treat him or her as the wrong one, that person will turn into the wrong one. The same is true with your job.

Consolidating power and merely delegating responsibilities are sufficient ways to maintain a single community, but they are terrible ways to exponentially reproduce Christian community. Movements occur only when the disempowered are given the freedom and responsibility to lead, along with the accountability to make it happen.

Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

Growth happens in community because the Bible places community as a critical step of obedience for the Christ follower. So the Christ follower outside of community is living in disobedience.

why make something your responsibility if it doesn't have to be?

Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.

To make that decision, we will have to avoid the trap of placing the burden of our national sins on the shoulders of Donald Trump. We need to look inward. Trump is us. Or better, Trump is you.

It is up to white people to release themselves from their own captivity.

White people deserved whatever happened to them, he said. The problem is that we don't deserve any of it.

Trump did not stop the "American carnage." He unleashed it.

For as is indicated in the law that changes not, the manner in which ye treat thy fellowman, ye are treating thy Maker. Thus each individual soul-entity meets its ownself and must give an account for the deeds done in the body and in the body-mind. For that ye thinketh in thy heart, so are ye.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

How does one produce a climate in which people will speak up, bring up information that is safety related, and even correct superiors or those of higher status when they are about to make a mistake?

We do not like or trust groups. We believe that committees and meetings are a waste of time and that group decisions diffuse accountability. We only spend money and time on team building when it appears to be pragmatically necessary to get the job done. We tout and admire teamwork and the winning team (espoused values), but we don't for a minute believe that the team could have done it without the individual star, who usually receives much greater pay (tacit assumption).

We would never consider for a moment paying the team members equally. In the Olympics we usually have some of the world's fastest runners yet have lost some of the relay races because we could not pass the baton without dropping it! We take it for granted that accountability must be individual; there must be someone to praise for victory and someone to blame for defeat, the individual where "the buck stops.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.