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What Accountability Looks Like in Action

Kaylah Rainey signs her letter of intent with Northwestern … and Northwestern becomes a national role model for accountability. The only time you become an effective leader is when you are accountable. And you only become accountable when you are committed. Commitment is at the very core of accountability and true leadership. If the leader is committed, then everyone will be committed! This is a very simple concept, yet you’d be surprised how many leaders

April 9, 2021

It’s All of Us

Community service is not a punishment. Accountability is not a way of doing; it is a way of thinking. Accountability is keeping your commitments to people … and a commitment is No Matter What. I believe that when you start adopting this No Matter What mindset on a regular basis, you can not only transform your team … but you also can begin the process of changing the world and make it a better place.

April 6, 2021

What Is Accountability?

Everything we have been told about accountability is wrong. Accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. Specifically, it’s how we think about people.

February 25, 2021

The Accountability PhD™

Committing to the success of others around you builds relationships and accountability. Your example of accountability will inspire accountability in others.

February 10, 2021

Accountability — “It’s All of Us” — In the Pandemic Era

Committing to the success of others around you builds relationships and accountability. Your example of accountability will inspire accountability in others.

January 15, 2021

Accountability…and the Twin Realities of the Remote Workforce

There are two potent realities that connect to the remote leadership challenge, and each of them is refusing to go away, despite the best efforts of some to stop believing in them. Each reality is worth understanding, because one of the core commitments of the accountable leader is a commitment to the truth, and this is a commitment that starts at home.

November 16, 2020

Who Are You? Are You Accountable?

You and I are living through a strange time, a time that will be written about in history books for decades and centuries to come. We are living through a time when the pressures and challenges we face are causing many among us to choose to perpetuate cycles of fear, anger, and greed. Yet this is also a time when others around us are just as prominently motivated by choices that sustain love, compassion, and

June 4, 2020

Accountability Means “It’s All of Us” in the Larger World

The commitment I call “it’s all of us” has a certain distinctive “look and feel” whenever a true leader lives it and leads with it. There are lots of different words leaders can use in demonstrating their accountability to this commitment, and there are lots of different actions they can take, but every time this idea is put into practice as a leadership principle, it Inspires people by sending a simple, powerful message via word

December 4, 2019

The Truth Matters

Many people make the mistake of assuming that a commitment to truth simply means promising to tell the truth to other people. It is far more important to be able to tell yourself the truth. Telling yourself the truth must come first. If you can’t be honest to yourself, you can’t be honest to someone else. Telling yourself the truth isn’t something you do once and consider complete. It’s an ongoing process, something you commit

February 11, 2019

A Question For The New Year

One of the questions I ask leaders — a question that sometimes makes them a little uncomfortable — is a fairly simple, direct one: Do you tell your people the truth? It’s a deeply relevant question, I think, as we approach the New Year. Forget, for a moment, whether you feel your people tell you the truth, or how you feel about it on those occasions when you can prove that they don’t. (That’s actually

January 2, 2019

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Tag: commitment

What Accountability Looks Like in Action

It’s All of Us

What Is Accountability?

The Accountability PhD™

Accountability — “It’s All of Us” — In the Pandemic Era

Accountability…and the Twin Realities of the Remote Workforce

Who Are You? Are You Accountable?

Accountability Means “It’s All of Us” in the Larger World

The Truth Matters

A Question For The New Year

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