Quotes About Accountability

From the point of view of individual efficiency, working in large batches makes sense. It also has other benefits: it promotes skill building, makes it easier to hold individual contributors accountable, and, most important, allows experts to work without interruption. At least that's the theory. Unfortunately, reality seldom works out that way.

It is unfair to criticize these managers for their response; the criticism should be aimed at senior executives who failed to design a supportive system in which to operate and innovate.

Brad explained to me how they hold themselves accountable for their new innovation efforts by measuring two things: the number of customers using products that didn't exist three years ago and the percentage of revenue coming from offerings that did not exist three years ago.

Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Success, meaningful success, begins when we take ownership and actively take responsibility for our part in the shortcomings of our life.

Maybe, just maybe, I was pointing the finger because it was easier to make excuses than it was to make adjustments.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

Unfortunately the few employees who are consistently poor at keeping agreements often have the ability to convince you that it's somehow your fault they're not succeeding.

Effective delegation is the single most powerful way for you to build trust in your employees' abilities.

manager's bill of rights," those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to feedback Keep their agreements Manage their own growth Are "Good Company Citizens

Employees who consistently behave as though it is your responsibility to "make them successful"; who blame you or others for their lack of success; who don't take the initiative to learn and grow—these employees are not fulfilling a key part of their role. It's easy to get pulled into their worldview; that is, that their role is to be a passive observer of your efforts to "grow" them, and that it's your fault if it doesn't work.

Bramblestar nodded toward Bumblestripe. "I sent a loyal warrior to see where you went," the ThunderClan leader growled.

This is your decision, Fireheart. No cat can make it for you.

Bumblestripe shrugged. "He snapped at Hazeltail for getting in the way, hissed at Cherrypaw for trampling on Ferncloud's moss, and ordered Foxleap and Toadstep to fetch comfrey." He glanced warily over his shoulder. "So I guess he's fine.

has always been the natural leader of all the Clans," she pointed out. "For that reason, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

We let it happen, we occasioned this horror. And we continue to occasion, it happens, we are still men.

the important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!

Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

You're not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?