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Fix the Culture!
How many CEO’s value the culture of their organizations as the main driver of the company’s success? How many really take the time to define what the culture should be, cultivate it, nurture it, and...
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Culture Without Accountability Wins Small Business Book Awards
Culture Without Accountability – WTF? What’s The Fix? Is Named a Winner in the 2014 Small Business Book Awards Cleveland, OH, June 15, 2014 – Culture Without Accountability –...
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Can You Change the Culture with the Same People in Place?
Much of our work as international consultants concerns business culture. Sometimes we’re asked by companies to establish and align a new culture to support the strategic direction of the business; and...
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What Distractions Do You Need to Eliminate?
If you’ve followed our blog, you know that we are huge University of Texas fans. During this Thanksgiving season, we are especially thankful for our football head coach, Charlie Strong. Why? He’s the...
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Ho Ho Ho or Bah Humbug?
What choices are YOU planning to make over the holidays? As we approach the holiday period, each of us has a choice of how we choose to deal with the holiday stress: the shopping, the cooking, house...
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Accountability Heroes and Zeros of 2014
We thought it might be interesting to look back at 2014 and see who and what stood out – either as highlights or as lowlights in the area of accountability. Sadly, it is not difficult to find the...
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Perceptions & Reputations
Can peoples’ actions influence our perceptions? Can someone have a reputation that makes you give them some slack when you hear a news story about them? And others, at the mere mention of their name,...
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Footballs, Ice Cream & the Mighty Dollar
Well, here we go again. Call us crazy, but we keep expecting accountability to change or at least hoping people will learn from prior mistakes and make a better decision the next time around. The...
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Charleston: Forgiveness versus Retaliation
In this blog, we’ve always been reluctant to dip our toes into the murky pools occupied by the issues of race, guns and politics, but after the events of these last few days in Charleston, we feel...
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Aliens, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump
Do you remember the old joke – if aliens were to come to earth and watch dog owners following their dogs around picking up their “deposits” they would think that dogs must rule our planet? Well, we’ve...
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The Call for As Below, So Above!
A couple of things happened this week which really provided a contrast for us in Accountability; one was at the A couple of things happened this week which really provided a contrast for us in...
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Accountability Heroes & Zeros of 2015
Back by popular demand! It’s time for our annual Accountability Heroes and Zeros list! When we look back at all that was 2015, who was accountable and who wasn’t? Who provided leadership in a way...
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Is Your Culture Accelerating Toward A Slippery Slope
How does a culture get out of whack? Does it happen all at once or does it happen more over time? We think it tends to happen gradually. A small thing left uncorrected may lead to another, and then...
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Does Your Culture Entice or Turn Off Recruits?
We think we’ll share another football example! Insistent upon installing a new culture in the football program at The University of Texas, Coach Charlie Strong instituted a set of Core Values. Those...
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The Olympic Version of Accountability
We don’t know about you, but we are Olympic junkies! Really, we love all the different sporting events and we really love all the back stories of the athletes. Some of them are teary-making; what they...
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Accountability Heroes & Zeros of 2016
Back by popular demand! It’s time for our annual Accountability Heroes and Zeros list! That time of year where we look back on 2016, who was accountable and who wasn’t? Who provided leadership in a...
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5 Accountability Tips for Drivers
Accountability is a big word, but it doesn’t always have to be about big things – Sometimes the small things are equally as important. Use your turn signals – you already paid for them! Say thanks when...
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Lame Decisions and Tarnished Reputations
What is so hard about doing the right thing? Why is it so difficult for some leaders to make decisions when the answer seems so obvious to the rest of us? Why does it take advertisers to...
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5 Accountability Tips for Emailers
Think! Do you really need to reply all? A quick “thanks” or “ok” lets the sender know the message was received Everyone gets a ton of email these days, get to the point or even enter your comments in...
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5 Accountability Tips for Air Travelers and Airlines
Air Travelers Don’t barge to get on the plane first. Believe it or not, you are not more important than everyone else. Do share shared space: Don’t hog the overhead bins. Put your seat back...
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