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Curing the financial crisis
We are in the middle of a financial crisis, both on Wall Street and on Main Street, and amidst this time of economic uncertainty there is one key element that is missing: Accountability. Who is...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cultures
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission charged former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo, COO David Sambol, and CFO Eric Sieracki with securities fraud for misleading investors about the...
View ArticleGovernment Accountability Office: Power & Limits
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), major accountability failures over the past several years have been the result of weaknesses in institutional or corporate governance or...
View ArticleSolve It!
As businesses and individuals continue to solve cash flow and other financial problems in these difficult economic times, they inevitably encounter obstacles, both expected and unexpected. Sometimes...
View ArticleA Phantom Reality
Consider our current mortgage crisis. There could be 4 million foreclosures in the U.S. this year. More than 15 million homes are currently worth less than their mortgages. So why aren’t banks doing...
View ArticleThe Accountability Paradox
For many people, accountability is synonymous with suffering the consequences of unmet expectations. “If no one is going to be punished for mistakes, failures, and unmet expectations,” they ask, “what...
View ArticleAssess Your Accountability Current
The “accountability current” flowing through the organizations of the most recent company failures—Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Financial, AIG, Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Quest, Adelphia,...
View ArticleA Culture of Accountability
The best kind of culture is a Culture of Accountability where people demonstrate high levels of ownership to think and act in the manner necessary to achieve organizational results. The defining...
View ArticleWhat Matters Most?
Organizations have enormous power to focus efforts on collective goals, objectives, issues, problems and results, if they so choose. It’s the power of an organization’s convergent effect—people coming...
View ArticleCourage, Humility, and Teamwork
Much has been written about the importance of courage, humility, and teamwork in business in recent years. The courage to speak your mind, the humility to change your mind, and the commitment to...
View ArticleTake Accountability for a Healthy Work-Life Balance
Ultimately, the most important factor in achieving a good work-life balance is the communication and creative problem solving between employee and supervisor. When both the employee and supervisor...
View ArticleBest Place to Work
Once again, Google was voted the #1 best place to work for 2014 in America by Fortune magazine. According to Fortune, “Employees rave about their mission, the culture, and the famous perks.” Engineers...
View ArticleOvercoming Organizational Hurdles
Overcoming organizational hurdles that impede performance, creativity, communication, and problem solving is crucial to success in today’s business environment, but it often occurs too slowly and...
View ArticleModel The Culture Change You Want
Culture change does not require a large personality, cunning manipulation, inspirational appeals, or giant leaps of faith. It simply requires honest intentions, conscious thought, and focused effort....
View ArticleCultures of Innovation
Here’s what a culture of innovation looks like: Nestlé’s pet food division cut the market introduction of a new packaging innovation by more than a year, which was unprecedented in the industry. Facing...
View ArticleCreating A Culture Of Accountability
Two mothers in Southern California assumed they would be able to find lots of organic baby food alternatives for their newborns. They were wrong. Despite the growing demand for natural organic...
View ArticleCulture of Accountability
Working in a Culture of Accountability creates a strong sense of what we call “organizational health and integrity.” It is the collective version of individual health and integrity where “I will do...
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