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Category Archives: AccountabilityProjects@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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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. Share the knowledge … Continue reading Today I was teaching Responsibility Redefined to a wonderful group of consultants at the premier Swedish consulting firm Provins Fem. I mentioned “effective” versus “efficient” and one of the consultants stopped me for a quick language check — as they … Continue reading I am in the countryside outside of Stockholm at a beautiful conference facility teaching Knowledge Team Leadership. I’ve discovered two important things about the Swedish people. First, like the Hispanic people with whom I work in Mexico, Swedes do not … Continue reading
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Responsibility Redefined is featured alongside Emotional Intelligence on CIO.com. Read the article here: Soft Skills for CIOs and Aspiring CIOs: Four Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence Here’s an excerpt: The cornerstone of emotional intelligence and soft skills is responsibility. … Continue reading I spent Thursday in Layton, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, with 100 Job Corps center directors, assistant directors, and regional and corporate executives of MTC, the largest Job Corps contractor. They operate twenty-some Job Corps centers stretching from Maine to Hawaii. Job Corps is a U.S. government training program that helps young people ages sixteen to twenty-four get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives. Continue reading
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In his blog, Mid-Life MBA, Eric Back opines that practicing accountability in a church may be over the top. He’s worried about whether a church should, for example, hold it’s pastor accountable for whether or not she grew the membership … Continue reading Blogger Dark Star spouts off today in an entry titled State of the Black Union: Accountability Ladder. The top of the entry was about four “ladder rungs” of unaccountability and four ladder rungs of accountability. The ladder metaphor certainly reminds … Continue reading |