Accountability and Responsibility
Accountability and Responsibility, we hear about it all the time. Like trust it has been dummied down. It often means little more than managing milestones and meeting targets. It comes off as very transactional. I feel like my kids’ Tae Kwon Do instructors look at this with a much higher level. It is about “personal” responsibility and “personal” accountability. That somehow that if you violate this you have let people down at deeper more profound level. In the corporate reality, You might lose your job, but it is not like personally there is a one has deeply violated this, or maybe more importantly that one is rewarded for maintaining this high level of respect.
Corporately it is really achievement and success that is driving people. But for some reason it is under the guise of accountability and responsibility. No one is going to fall on their sword because of a missed target.
Accountability should really feel like you are piercing the soul if you violate it. I am not suggesting that there is no integrity in business and that people do not take their reputation and their relationships seriously, but all too often business is watering the definition to where it becomes meaningless.