Quotes About Accountability

Ve y convierte tus palabras en hechos. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Brokers are butchers, while fiduciaries are dietitians.

Los que asumen la responsabilidad ejercen el poder; los que la eluden son desposeídos.

In every area of life, you get what you tolerate. And it's time to raise the standard.

Insiders are not helpless, nor are you. In every area of life, you get what you tolerate. And it's time to raise the standard.

But a Prime Minister cannot escape till he has succeeded in finding a successor; and though the successor be found and consents to make an attempt, the old unfortunate cannot be allowed to go free when that attempt is shown to be a failure. He has not absolutely given up the keys of his boxes, and no one will take them from him. Even a sovereign can abdicate; but the Prime Minister of a constitutional government is in bonds.

If it had turned out to be anybody else," said the member of Parliament, "the results might have been most serious, — not to say discreditable.

I have known gentlemen who have felt that in becoming members of Parliament they had achieved an object for themselves instead of thinking that they had put themselves in the way of achieving something for others. A member of Parliament should feel himself to be the servant of his country, — and like every other servant, he should serve. If this be distasteful to a man he need not go into Parliament

I don't think half so much of Parliament folk as some do. They're for promising everything before they's elected; but not one in twenty of 'em is as good as his word when he gets there.

Wise people, when they are in the wrong, always put themselves right by finding fault with the people against whom they have sinned.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Field Marshal Brooke once wrote in his diary: 'It is astonishing how petty and small men can be in connection with questions of command.

discover you've been in the box. Do keep trying. Don't deny that you've been in the box when you have been. Do apologize; then just keep marching forward, trying to be more helpful to others in the future. Don't focus on what others are doing wrong. Do focus on what you can do right to help. Don't worry whether others are helping you. Do worry whether you are helping others.

7. In the box, we invite mutual mistreatment and obtain mutual justification. We collude in giving each other reason to stay in the box.

In summary, then, the myriad ways in which people have used this book and its ideas fall within five broad areas of application: (1) applicant screening and hiring, (2) leadership and team building, (3) conflict resolution, (4) accountability transformation, and (5) personal growth and development.

Out of the box, my what-focus at work is results. In the box, by contrast, my what-focus is justification. That's the first reason why the box always undercuts results.

The culture of blame that is so prevalent in organizations is replaced with a culture of deep responsibility-taking and accountability.

The reason this book has been so instrumental in helping people to resolve conflict is that it opens readers to how they have helped to create the very problems they have attributed to others. This is the essence of the self-deception solution— discovering how each of us has the problem of not knowing we have a problem. This is the realization that makes conflict resolution possible.

I understand that I may not be responsible for the things he's done. But I am responsible for what I've done.

Because then we're all doomed. That's to say that our entire experience, even our thoughts and feelings, are controlled and caused by others. It's to believe that we're not responsible for who we've become.

But that is not what Carol is suggesting. She hasn't said anything about letting Cory off the hook. She's only been talking about not letting herself off the hook.

In this way, a problem that had gone on literally for years was solved nearly overnight when the leaders stopped simply assigning responsibility and began holding themselves strictly accountable. This is now the model in that company for solving every problem encountered.

That I am responsible for how I have been feeling, not only for what I have been doing.

Helpful skills and techniques aren't very helpful if they're done in the box. They just provide people with more-sophisticated ways to blame.