Accountability Is Not a Switch
Most managers treat accountability like it's binary — either you're holding someone accountable or you're not. But accountability is a dial, not a switch.
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On accountability, developing people, and what it means to lead well.
Featured in Harvard Business Review
Do You Understand What Accountability Really Means?The article that introduced The Accountability Dial to the HBR audience.
Most managers treat accountability like it's binary — either you're holding someone accountable or you're not. But accountability is a dial, not a switch.
Your job as a leader isn't to save the day. It's to ask the question that helps someone save their own.
Values on a wall don't change behavior. Accountability infrastructure does.