Quotes About Accountability

As you release tasks to the leaders you're developing, you need to trust them, believe in them, and hold them accountable.

THE PRICE TAG OF LEADERSHIP: SELF-DISCIPLINE

The Law of Diminishing Intent says, "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

A leader cannot demand of others what he does not demand of himself.

The price of greatness is responsibility." That

Most people don't know this, but it's easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

ASK NO MORE OF OTHERS THAN YOU ARE ASKING OF YOURSELF.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." That's

At least once a year I'd ask Steve to point out anything he thought I was doing that was wrong or weaknesses in my leadership that he believed might have me headed for trouble. After a couple of years of this, Steve once said, 'John, you are the most successful person I work with, yet you are the only one who invites critism. Why?' I don't trust anyone with power that can't be checked, I answered. Especially me.

Practicing responsibility will do great things for you. It will strengthen your talent, advance your skills, and increase your opportunities. It will improve your quality of life during the day and help you to sleep better at night. But it will also improve the lives of the people around you.

Y tercero, usted nunca será lo que debe ser hasta que haga lo que debe hacer.

Few things push a person like a deadline and an audience. That didn't mean that I always reached my goals. But I found that if I told others about what I intended to do, I worked harder, and I worked in such a way that I wouldn't be ashamed of my efforts even if everyone was watching them.

Years ago, I used to tell new leaders I hired that every person in our organization walked around with two buckets. One bucket contained water, and the other gasoline. As leaders, they would continually come across small fires, and they could pour water or gasoline on a fire. It was their choice.

Cuando está interesado en algo, lo hace sólo cuando le conviene. Cuando está comprometido con algo, no acepta excusas, sino sólo resultados

REMIND YOURSELF THAT LEADERSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

The way you take control of the direction of your life is to take responsibility for yourself and your everyday actions.

Even the most noble endeavors fail with immoral leadership.

Every time we make an excuse, we fail to learn from our mistakes.

I love the story about the shortest letter to the editor written to England's newspaper the Daily Mail. When the editor invited readers to send in their answers to the question, "What's wrong with the world?" writer G. K. Chesterton is reputed to have sent the following: Dear Sir, I am. Yours sincerely, G. K. Chesterton

John D. Rockefeller Jr. said, "I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." The

I have had to let go of my need to be right and focus on the greater need to do right.

Tomorrow's opportunity is determined by yesterday's responsibility.