Quotes About Responsibility

But this will never happen again, he vowed. If I ever find someone else to care about, I will not let my mission come first. I will break any order. I'll endanger my own tribe if I have to. I will make up for this somehow. Someday.

trailed after them and Starflight reluctantly brought up the rear. He glanced back once and saw Fatespeaker huddled into her wings, a small drenched shape beside the vast bulk of Morrowseer. He hoped his friends would welcome her as the new NightWing when he was gone. I'm about to die, he thought, and I never got to tell Sunny I love her. I'm going to die without saving the world, without stopping the war … without ever doing one brave thing in my life.

No tenéis por qué meteros en esto —dijo Gloria—. Es problema

Well, Sunny was watching Webs. As usual, Starflight was watching Sunny.

Good news: Four of your students have gone off to find a dragon who just tried to kill you, in order to find another dragon who has tried to kill you about ninety dozen times. Oh excellent, thanks, Turtle. Now we don't have to worry at all. I mean, we were hoping somebody would take care of the vengeful and deadly Queen Scarlet for us. Preferably a bunch of five-year-olds. Very reassuring indeed.

Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.

And if you have time, please could you also make sure she's not arrested for treason? That would be great, thanks.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

Firing someone is not necessarily a sign of accountability, but is often the last act of cowardice

it is far more natural, and common, for leaders to avoid holding people accountable.

Conflict is about issues and ideas, while accountability is about performance and behavior.

A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.

I believe it's long past time that we, as individuals and as a society, reestablished the standard that leadership can never be about the leader more than the led.

Because of this lack of real commitment and buy-in, team members develop an avoidance of accountability, the fourth dysfunction. Without committing to a clear plan of action, even the most focused and driven people often hesitate to call their peers on actions and behaviors that seem counterproductive to the good of the team.

commitment cannot occur if people are unclear about exactly what is being committed to.

Wanting to be popular with your direct reports instead of holding them accountable.

Listen, this is just an unpleasant part of our job sometimes. Those executives know that I took a bullet for them. I'll make sure they acknowledge that in some way, but I'm not going to punish them for it. Remember, they're paying us to help them make their company more successful, and if I had to be a trial balloon or a strategic piñata to make that happen, so be it.

Teams that are willing to commit publicly to specific results are more likely to work with a passionate, even desperate desire to achieve those results. Teams that say, "We'll do our best," are subtly, if not purposefully, preparing themselves for failure.

It is at once shocking and understandable that intelligent people cannot see the correlation between failing to take the time to get clarity, closure, and buy-in during a meeting, and the time required to clean up after themselves as a result.

Team Rewards By shifting rewards away from individual performance to team achievement, the team can create a culture of accountability. This occurs because a team is unlikely to stand by quietly and fail because a peer is not pulling his or her weight.

this point is critical—no one but the head of an organization can make it healthy.

Take a bullet for the client. Make everything about the client. Honor the client's work. Do the dirty work.