Accountability ≠ responsibility

Role Accountability is good. Personal Responsibility is great.

Accountability is about managing roles. Personal Responsibility is about leading change.

When you focus on Accountability > Responsibility you get unhappy people and low performance.

When Responsibility > Accountability you get happy people and amazing performance.

1. Accountability,≠,Responsibility,

2. Execu4ve,Summary,
Role%Accountability%is,good.,Personal%Responsibility%is,great.,
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Accountability%is,about,managing,roles.,Personal%Responsibility%is,about,
leading,change.,
,
When,you,focus,on,Accountability%>%Responsibility%you,get,unhappy,
people,and,low,performance.,
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When,Responsibility%>,Accountability%you,get,happy,people,and,amazing,
performance.,
,

3. Accountability,
,
,
Responsibility,
,
,
,
,
Role,
,Personal!

4. Accountability,,
is,,
Ver6cal%
How!we!managed!!
before!complexity!
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…and!s7ll!the!!
dominant!mental!model!

5. How!anything!REAL!gets!done!in!a!complex!world!
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And!the!mental!models!are!young/
Responsibility,is,Horizontal%

6. Tradi4onal,Accountability,Mindset,
Results,you,care,about,most,
Results,they,care,about,most,

7. Shared,Responsibility,Mindset,
Results,you,,
care,about,Most,
Results,they%care,,
about,Most,

8. Credible,Threat%%

9. Credible,Trust,,
&,Commitment%

10. Them%Us%
Scarcity%

11. Expansive%

12. Extrinsic%

13. Intrinsic,

14. Determinis4c,,,
Linear,

15. Adap4ve,,Empirical,

16. When,
Accountability,>,Responsibility,
Unhappy,
People,
Low,
Performance,

17. When,
Responsibility,>,Accountability,
Happy,
People,
Amazing,
Performance,

18. Think,about,it,
As,a,leader…,
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Am,I,driving,accountability,into,the,organiza4on,in,a,
way,that,increases,fear,and,thus,drives,personal,
responsibility,out?,
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Am,I,clear,on,the,dis4nc4on,between,being%held%to%
account,and,feeling,an,internal,sense,of,ownership?,
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How,can,I,prac4ce,Responsibility%>,Accountability?,
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