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Responsibility ≠ Accountability

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 by 20%—like a business holds it's leaders accountable for quarterly results. I say that depends [...]

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End With the Beginning in Mind

Mike Griffiths, blogging at Leading Answers, recently wrote that he was leaving his employment of six years at Quadrus Development and starting a new gig. Then Mike went on to say that he read some helpful teamwisdom in my book (Teamwork Is An Individual Skill) about Ending With the Beginning in Mind. He then reviewed [...]

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Modern Plastics Recognizes Power of Responsibility Redefined

The March 2007 issue of Modern Plastics magazine recognizes Partnerwerks client ATEK Plastics for their amazing four-year turn-around story in which Responsibility Redefined played a role in re-building the culture and focusing both leadership and plant employees on a powerful language for continuous improvement. Responsibility Redefined leveraged ATEK’s efforts in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, internal [...]

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Dark Star Spouts Off on Unaccountability

 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 me of the stage-wise nature of climbing the Responsibility Process™. I'll let you go read [...]

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VisionHolder? My Mom Would Be Proud

Thanks to the graciousness of the people at Heartland, you can listen to my VisionHolder Call interview with Craig Neal. It's 57 minutes long and probes the essence of my work in TeamWisdom and Responsibility Redefined. Here's the MP3 file. Craig conducted one of the better interviews I've experienced. His brilliant format includes a Q&A [...]

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