Recent Posts Tagged With 'responsibility'

• What are you willing to take responsibility for?

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 06:56 in responsibility, self responsibility, interview with barack obama on the o'reilly factor

  In today’s world, it can be tough being a leader, because people in high power are doing the best they can to make people, organizations and political systems happy. I sat and watched Barack Obama get grilled last night by Bill O’Reilly (...

• Leadership is calling a spade a spade

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 10:35 in accountability, responsibility, corey blake, edge! a leadership story, writers of the round table, writers of the round table press, company standards

  The buck stops with the leader. Ultimately, they are accountable for the performance of the entire system.  When something is not working, people often make excuses or  avoid taking responsibility and just try to push through, typically leading to ...

• Leadership Coaching Question: Are You a Meddling Leader?

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 06:10 in responsibility, leadership coaching, micro-managing, over managing

  With leadership comes great responsibility: The responsibility for revenues, the responsibility for people, the responsibility for public image, and the list goes on and on. And, it is not uncommon for many leaders to over-manage in an effort to ge...

• The Blaming Organization

  Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 09:50 in learning, leadership development, learning and development, responsibility, training and development, passing the buck

  I was talking with a young woman yesterday who recently left a company after she was written up for “walking too fast”. She told me this, and I thought I had heard her incorrectly. I said “Can you say that again?” She then ...