Achieve with Accountability

ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results. Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication Achieve with Accountability presents a recipe for awakening the whatever it takes attitude to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations. Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick-start a revolution that will blast your team or organization to new heights of success. We are in a brawl with no rules, where the fast, flexible and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking and complacent. When you relinquish accountability you place your future in the hands of other people or events. It's only by taking accountability and ownership for our circumstances that we can achieve what matters most. Embrace the accountability fundamentals that have helped individuals, teams and organizations for years to achieve and exceed what matters most. With the world coming at us fast and furious every day, it's easy to feel like you've lost control of your own life, your team or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny. Develop the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant change Foster a can-do, resolute, solutions focus in the face of difficult challenges, obstacles and barriers Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifles peak performance Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair Take control over your circumstances and achieve what matters most Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left untapped in individuals, teams and organizations Establish unshakable trust and credibility Accountability is a current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your results are all your responsibility; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. Achieve with Accountability shows you how to nourish that can-do mindset, so you can begin to achieve what matters most.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results.Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communicationAchieve with Accountability presents a recipe for awakening the whatever it takes attitude to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations. Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick-start a revolution that will blast your team or organization to new heights of success. We are in a brawl with no rules, where the fast, flexible and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking and complacent. When you relinquish accountability you place your future in the hands of other people or events. It's only by taking accountability and ownership for our circumstances that we can achieve what matters most. Embrace the accountability fundamentals that have helped individuals, teams and organizations for years to achieve and exceed what matters most.With the world coming at us fast and furious every day, it's easy to feel like you've lost control of your own life, your team or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny.* Develop the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant change* Foster a can-do, resolute, solutions focus in the face of difficult challenges, obstacles and barriers* Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifles peak performance* Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair* Take control over your circumstances and achieve what matters most* Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left untapped in individuals, teams and organizations* Establish unshakable trust and credibilityAccountability is a current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your results are all your responsibility; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. Achieve with Accountability shows you how to nourish that can-do mindset, so you can begin to achieve what matters most.

The Author xiResources, Solutions, and Workshops xiiiPreface: Taking Accountability xvChapter 1 Taking Accountability 1Positively the Best Decision 1Take Accountability or Blame? The Stakes Are High 5The Magic of Taking Accountability 6The Rewards of Taking Accountability 10Accountability Accelerator 11Shine the Spotlight on the One and Only 15An Unexpected and Illuminating Discovery 19Do They Know the Rules of the Game? 21Chapter 2 Choices 35Decisions Determine Destiny 35Stay the Course--Avoid Drowning "Below the Water" 39Beware of the Bell 43Leading Accountability--It Is a Choice, and Everyone's Job 46Where Do They Learn Those Things? 49Words Are Cheap--The Actions We Choose Are What Matters 52The Enemies: Justifications, Explanations, Reasons, Rationalizations, Vindications, and Excuses 54Why Did Randy Cross the Road? 56Chapter 3 Accountability--What Is It? 67Once Defined, It Flows 67Are You Fully Recognizing Your Realities? 74The Eyes Have It 76Have You Accepted Ownership for Your Realities? 78Yoda--The Accountability Coach 81Lessons from Hyrum 83Solutions Abound 86The Obvious Next Step 90Chapter 4 Accountability Transcends 97Powerful Shift in Perception 97Cement the Focus 100The Magical Mindset Shift 103Lessons from the Marauders 106Accountability Trumps Responsibility 109To LAG or to LEAD 111Chapter 5 The Preeminent Organization 117Accountability Is the Catalyst 117Shaping an Accountable Culture 120Ignite Desired Accountable Behaviors 122The Power of Genuine Appreciation 127Culture: How We Do Things Around Here 129Forging an Accountable Culture: Little Things Matter--A Lot! 131Are the Experiences in Your Culture Nurturing Accountability? 133The Relationship Triad: Experiences, Beliefs and Actions 135You Alone Are Accountable for How You Are Perceived 137Sustaining an Accountable Culture: Tune-Ups Required 139Accountability Tip: Do Not Shoulder Their Accountabilities 142Do Not Dwell on Why: Keep Moving Forward 144Accountability in Times of Change: Overcome Fear and Denial 146The Pinnacle: The Accountable Organization 150Live and Lead Accountably 161Index 163