Quotes About Accountability

lt takes guts to play defense, because you can loaf out on the court and nobody will know it. Only you will know if you did your best to grab a loose ball, or stop your man from scoring.

The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.

You must be in charge from the start of each cycle, to the reviews, and to the follow-up steps you take to make sure the things that are supposed to happen do, in fact, happen. This is how you acquire both the knowledge and the authority to run the business as an integrated, reality-based whole. It is how you ultimately assure that all three processes are linked.

Operations To execute well there must be accountability, clear goals, accurate methods to measure performance, and the right rewards for people who perform. But now, more than ever before, leaders need to design flexible operating plans. In the past a company might make one or perhaps two profound changes in its operations each year.

Follow-through is the cornerstone of execution, and every leader who's good at executing follows through religiously. Following through ensures that people are doing the things they committed to do, according to the agreed timetable.

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

The Talmud stresses that a group's behavior comes from the top: "The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if the leader is unjust, that nation is also unjust and will be punished for the sins of the leader."' The term nation applies to any group of people, including companies.

The mentoring model for discipleship and leadership training is primarily focused on one-on-one relationships. It envisions every Christian having a mentor and mentoring someone else down the line.

And if I, as pastor, have failed to do my part to train my leaders to lead, what right do I have to complain about the way they do their job or make their decisions?

Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.

Anger can be a very healthy emotion when used to motivate yourself into positive action. Get angry and fight back. Yep, I said fight. You are in a battle. You need to steel your confidence with anger. Be angry that you messed up. Be angry that you didn't keep your word. Get mad at yourself for all your mistakes. Get sad, get mad, and then get on with it.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

What you tolerate is what you endorse.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

?nsan ald???n? silen bir varl?kt?r, yaln?zca verdi?inin hesab?n? yapmay? bilir. (s. 146)

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

mayor responsabilidad sobre los resultados.

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people.