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Accountability: Not all it is Cracked up to Be

3 June, 2013 by James Lawther 10 Comments

Holding you accountable

We talk a lot about accountability in business.  We like it.  It makes us feel confident and in control. So is accountability all it is cracked up to be? Accountability is good: It provides clarity It gives authority It holds us true Holding ourselves accountable is invariably a good thing. It is wrong and immoral […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, blame, roles and responsibilities, W. Edwards Deming

Should you go to Work in Your Slippers?

4 December, 2012 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Results only work environment

How would it be if you could come and go at work just as you pleased?  If nobody checked your hours, if you didn’t have to attend meetings and if the only stick you were measured by was the results you achieved? If you believe the articles the American retailer Best Buy has created that […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, best practice, employee performance measures, empowerment, objective setting, office productivity, performance management, results only work environment, trust, wasted motion

Never Take Responsibility

17 November, 2012 by Robby Slaughter 2 Comments

Responsibility

This is a guest post by Robby Slaughter We all want engaged employees who are highly productive, efficient and upbeat at work. The challenge is that in so many organizations, workplace morale is mediocre at best. We work in cultures where people do the minimum because they don’t see any reason to put in more […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, roles and responsibilities

Boring but Deadly: Roles and Responsibilities

18 August, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Florida Everglades

I am a good boss I run a fair-sized team.  I like to think I am a good boss, reasonable, fair, open-minded.  Perhaps I am kidding myself. There is however one thing I do that drives my team nuts, makes them apoplectic, I have an infuriating habit of asking two people to do the same […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: accident prevention, accountability, aviation, roles and responsibilities, teamwork

Shit Happens

28 July, 2012 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Spilt Milk

It’s not nice,  but it is a fact of life, a certainty.  Things go wrong, events conspire against you, milk gets spilt, shit happens. Maybe you can mitigate it, but you certainly can’t avoid it.  It will get you in the end. How are you going to deal with it? Option A: Cry Play the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, bitching and moaning, motivation, resilience

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