One of my goals of this sabbatical was to do some reading. I have accomplished that – read three books (other 2 book reviews to come). The book, Sam Silverstein’s The Five Accountabilities, that I just completed, was on a subject that I have written from time to time on accountability (What No Personal Responsibility [...]
Posts Tagged ‘accountability’
What – No Personal Responsibility?
April 27th, 2010 
Steve There is something happening more and more today that just has got me fired up, the lack of personal accountability or responsibility. I don’t know if I am more sensitive to it or just that the frequency of the occurrences have increased. Either way, I am sick and tired of witnessing this. How about you? [...]
Posted in Observations 
Tags: accountability, fear, motivation, people, performance management, trust 
1 Comment »Enough Talk, Let’s Do Something
March 30th, 2010 Steve Over the past few months, I have posted a few entries on education. During that same time the state government and the federal government for that fact has done very little to ease my concern on what is truly our future. It is the state of affairs around education. Facts (straight from Arizona Education Association) [...]
Staying in Touch
May 15th, 2009 Steve Ever wonder if your leader is in touch with reality? Ever wonder where they are? Ever watch them walk to and from meetings – and wonder what they are looking for? I have wonder those a few times in my career. I used to use the phrase, “looking for $50 bills” when I see [...]
True Team Players
May 7th, 2009 Steve The other day I was lucky enough to caught up with a few of my old hockey players I coached in high school. They are all out of college now, so I felt pretty old. We were talking about the year, in their minds, was the best season in the four years that they played [...]
True Team Collaboration – Not There Yet?
April 26th, 2009 Steve One of the most challenging problems I face when leading work teams is how to get the team to collaborate better together. To set the stage, my work team has members in Arizona, Oregon, California and England. The folks that we interface closely are in the same sites but we can add Hong Kong, Israel [...]
Posted in Leading Teams Tags: accountability, collaboration, communication, fear, social computing, trust 2 Comments »
