Quotes About Accountability

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings.

word once spoken cannot be taken back", she went on with quiet intensity. "It goes out into the world. It changes the world. You must take greater care with your words.

Are we just looking for a sympathetic ear to agree with us, or are we asking for people to speak the truth to us? I can remember many times being angry with someone because he spoke the truth to me. How about you?

Take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work. This is the flip side of "Don't stay away." Don't expect your boss to reach out or to offer you the time and support you need. It's best to begin by assuming that it's on your shoulders to make the relationship work.

Don't surprise your boss. It's no fun bringing your boss bad news. However, most bosses consider it a far greater sin not to report emerging problems early enough.

Clarify expectations early and often. Begin managing expectations from the moment you consider taking a new role. Focus on expectations during the interview process. You are in trouble if your boss expects you to fix things fast when you know the business has serious structural problems. It's wise to get bad news on the table early and to lower unrealistic expectations. Then check in regularly to make sure your boss's expectations have not shifted. Revisiting

Consciously or unconsciously, you may choose to delay by burying yourself in other work or fool yourself into believing that the time isn't ripe to make the call. The result is what leadership thinkers have termed work avoidance: the tendency to avoid taking the bull by the horns, which results in tough problems becoming even tougher.1

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

Competing on results requires that results be measured and made widely available. Only by measuring and holding every system participant accountable for results will the performance of the health care system ever be significantly improved.

Mandatory measurement and reporting of results is perhaps the single most important step in reforming the health care system.

White fragility is a will to innocence that serves to bury the violence it sits on top off.

The idolatry of whiteness and the cloak of innocence that shields it can only be quenched by love, but not merely, or even primarily, a private, personal notion of love, but a public expression of love that holds us all accountable. Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

A disturbing habit has arisen: ordinary white women, neither empowered by the courts nor sanctioned by social services, demand that Black folk give account of their actions, their presence, or their intentions. Such demands (often captured on a video recording) are made to kids selling lemonade on the street, folk barbecuing in the local park, or a student stealing a few moments of shut-eye in an Ivy League university

The central problem with our world is not that it is wicked but that we allow it to be wicked.

You shape yourself, you make yourself. There is no one to save you other than yourself. It's not Christ, Mohammed or Moses who's responsible for your life, it's you. In the end, souls judge themselves.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

En son kimden "Kabahat bende" laf?n? duyduk? Sartre'?n "?nsan, do?as? ve seçimlerinden tümüyle sorumludur" demesinin üzerinden yüzlerce y?l geçmi? sanki. Bugün tam tersi geçerli. ?nsanlar ne do?alar?ndan ne de seçimlerinden sorumlular.

Cornelius Fudge

But people's ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.

Who needs terrorists or mother nature when through our own stupidity we do things like this.

Blame is like ice-it freezes an issue without changing it.