My life-long friend Stuart Cordell brought this piece to my attention when it was published about a month ago: Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It’s Much Easier to Feign Infallibility
Jared Sandberg wrote it for his Wall Street Journal column Cubicle Culture. The essence of the article is that laying blame is a successful [...]
Projects@Work published an excerpt from Kimberly Wiefling's new book evocatively titled Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces.
I haven't read the rest of the book although I look forward to doing so after seeing the 80-second video she posted on Amazon.com (see what she does with the PMBOK!). To [...]
There's a blog post and comments over at Linked-In about the difference between accountability and responsibility. Here's what I said…
I agree with Thomas Dodds (a commenter there) who says:
"So I TAKE responsibility and I am HELD accountable."
In my work with Responsibility Redefined I think, write, and teach everyday about the difference between Responsibility and [...]
Though we use the words interchangeably in society, accountability and responsibility are not the same thing at all. I blogged about this a few months back. It was music to my ears to read Bill Ferriter who teaches 6th grade language arts in Wake County, NC (where he was named Teacher of the Year for [...]
I appreciate Steven List's blog post on my session Monday afternoon at Agile 2007. I like what he captured as the essence — that responsibility derives from self while accountability comes from without.
Music to my ears.
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