Archive for the "Accountability" category

Learn From JetBlue and Steven Slater: Taking Responsibility Will Prevent Feelings of Obligation

I’m going to make an exception to one of my practices: I normally refrain from publicly using the Leadership Gift to analyze current affairs. It would be so easy for me: every day some prominent journalist or blogger bellows, “When will [insert reviled public figure] stand up and take responsibility for this mess?!” and I [...]

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Ask Christopher Avery, 10 March 2009 – Listen Now

It was a great Ask Christopher Avery Q&A session today. You can listen on the player here. The questions I addressed are below. Ask your question now for the next monthly session of Ask Christopher Avery.

Jim: What is the most effective way to help a person move out of the “deep victim” stance into a [...]

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Responsible Leadership Questions & Answers

I appreciate you. And I appreciate your interest in how personal and shared responsibility works in the mind. People like you joined me today for a solid hour of my best information about leading, teaming, and succeeding through 100% ownership. It’s live, no-cost, and completely driven by your questions. You were there right? Or [...]

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Do You Think All Responsibility Is Personal?

Everyday Google-bots comb the net bringing me posts by journalists, bloggers, politicos, celebs and others about responsibility and accountability. Out of those posts, 99.54 percent of them are terribly uninteresting, mainly Lay Blame rants along the lines of “when is someone going to take responsibility and accountability for (name your injustice)?” That should help you [...]

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Effective Leadership Agility

Effective leadership skills suggest we should always be willing to investigate ourselves as much as any other reasoned breakdown in communication.
Communication is what is received, not what is sent. This quotation should be a mantra for every effective leader. If we are communicating through our actions, our words, or our policies — a message of [...]

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