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Corporate Cultures – Why Policies Don’t Match Actions
Too often, corporate policies are the ‘little white lies’ no one likes to talk about. Philosophically, corporate policies should reflect the expectations of company leaders and drive management’s...
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Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 3 – Artificial Retainer Driven...
“The wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.” Josh Billings (1818 – 1885) American humorist It’s a natural human tendency to seek the path of least resistance. For executives,...
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Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 4 – Taking Care of Employees
At first glance, warning against taking care of one’s employees appears contradictory to what most would believe is an important function of every manager. Context is important here. Too often,...
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Take the Fear Out of Accountability
The word accountability elicits a threat response from most employees, who interpret the word ‘accountability’ to be synonymous with punishment. Let’s face it, any time there’s a disaster, mistake, or...
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Organizational Accountability – Evaluating Organizational Culture, part 2
An organization’s culture - its commonly shared values and beliefs - is both highly complex and interrelated. As such, no one cultural artifact should be used in isolation to describe an...
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Organizational Accountability – Evaluating Organizational Culture, part 3
When evaluating an organization's culture, it is important to understand that variations likely exist vertically among personnel levels and horizontally across divisions, departments, and workgroups....
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How To Attract The Right Employees
Finding the right employees is no easy task, but it’s very important. Not having the right people in place can make or break your company. That’s why businesses everywhere are always trying to come up...
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How To Attract Top Talent To Your Business
If you want to be successful in the long-term, then you’re going to have to hire a team of people who are skilled and committed to helping you grow your business. You’re not going to get far if you’re...
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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business
In order to succeed and thrive in modern society, all private and public sector entities must live by codes of ethics. In an era that encompasses mistrust of business, uncertainties about the economy...
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Resource Management Best Practice 1 – Attract the Best with Accountability
In today’s competitive environment, it is no longer good enough to offer employees a good place to work. Rather, it is imperative a company creates a work environment where the best want to work. Only...
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Strategic Planning Best Practice 7 – Shared Accountability
Organizational silos act as barriers; hindering the performance of business units, work groups, and individuals as they strive to achieve the organization’s shared goals. Nowhere in the organization...
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Recommended Resource – The Accountable Organization
The Accountable Organization: Reclaiming Integrity, Restoring Trust by John Marchica About the Reference The Accountable Organization: Reclaiming Integrity, Restoring Trust by John Marchica...
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StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Forum
Accountable organizations are unique creatures; standing out from others because of their superior performance, greater employee loyalty, and higher customer satisfaction. Although the rewards are...
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Organizational Accountability – Evaluating Organizational Culture, part 1
While it might sound cliche, there exists a significant truth to the phrase, actions speak louder than words. As individuals, we all hold certain values, beliefs, and biases which guide our decisions...
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Organizational Accountability – Increase Opportunities with Accountability
Every day, executives and managers are presented with opportunities to enhance their organization’s success. Frequently, these opportunities go unrecognized, unexplored, or unexploited because the...
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Organizational Accountability – Pillars of Accountability
Organizational accountability exists when all members of the workforce individually and collectively act to consequentially promote the timely accomplishment of the organization’s mission....
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The Welch Way a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast by Jack and Suzy Welch About the Reference The Welch Way is a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast authored by former GE CEO Jack Welch and his...
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Organizational Accountability – Performance = Results + Behaviors
Organizational accountability is built on the premise that individuals are equitably rewarded based on their contribution to the accomplishment of the organization's goals consistent with its ethical...
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Organizational Accountability – Fundamental Accountability Drivers
As previously stated, we believe organizations act in accordance with the shared values of the people that comprise them. What an organization values is represented by the rewards sought in return for...
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Organizational Accountability Best Practice 1 – Fact-Based Management
To say the accountable organization manages by fact may seem to suggest that a utopia exists, one in which all circumstances can be defined by ones and zeros. Within this utopian organization,...
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Organizational Accountability Best Practice 2 – Data Transparency
Is it still wrong if I don’t get caught? YES! Organizations live and die by the decisions of executives and managers and the actions of employees. Therefore, individuals must be held accountable for...
View ArticleOrganizational Performance Measures Best Practice 15 – Map Performance...
Too often, creation and maintenance of organizational performance measures becomes an administrative exercise accompanied by lifeless, mundane monthly review meetings. Real ownership of a performance...
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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming...
Everybody loves Bob. He’s a corporate hero. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. Instead he was thinking about work, as he does most nights. Suddenly...
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Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People
There isn’t an organization anywhere that doesn’t have a problem with some type of personnel turnover problems. Depending on the study you look at, the impact of turnover ranges from three months of...
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Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 1 – Equality of Outcomes
No two individuals are exactly alike; therefore, each uniquely contributes to the organization. Subsequently, it is reasonable to expect that each individual’s efforts will result in a unique value...
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Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 2 – Time-based Performance...
How often have you, as an executive or manager, looked at the cars in the parking lot as you come into or depart from your workplace and said to yourself, “So and so are really contributing to the...
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