From the category archives:

accountability

Avoiding Success: Why Don’t You Live Up to Your Full Potential?

May 8, 2010

Here’s an interesting fact from the US Government:
During the average workday, most people spend more time goofing off than doing “real” work.
On average, 53% more time, in fact.
It gets worse.
When they are doing their “real” work, more often than not they are actually either:
a.  Only pretending to work
b.  Doing “busy work” with no value
… or [...]

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30-Day Blogging Challenge

April 11, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot these past few weeks.
About what I want. About what you want. About
life and work in general. About stripping everything
down to the basics, and skipping all the BS.
I’m so tired of all the hype and sales tactics and
the “next best thing” that I want to tear my hair out.
But I still [...]

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Everyone Needs a Mastermind

October 8, 2009

It seems like I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Masterminding recently — from private coaching clients, friends, and comments on this blog. So I dug out and dusted off this article that ran last year in my marketing newsletter — it was good for me to read it again, too.
Hey, I’m telling you [...]

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What the Heck Are You Doing?

June 23, 2009

One thing that always comes up with my coaching clients is the subject of how they’re spending their time. And how their people are spending their time. Often, they don’t really know.
That’s okay, I guess, if they don’t care if they’re making any money or not.
So do you really know how time is being spent [...]

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Do All the Monkeys End Up on Your Desk?

May 23, 2009

I love monkeys, don’t you? My brother and I saw one in a Woolworth’s store (remember them?) many many years ago and I wanted to buy him so much. (I wasn’t allowed to have the monkey, but when I think that I was allowed to have the alligator, 2 ducks, 6 chicks, the mouse, the [...]

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Make Your Team More Accountable: Get Them to Think and Act Like Owners

May 18, 2009

Responsibility and accountability are aspects of ownership. Only those who feel a true sense of ownership in your company will be sincerely responsible to it and accountable for their own actions — isn’t that why you’re so responsible and accountable, because you own the place?
In Jason Jenning’s book, Think Big, Act Small, the author describes [...]

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