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When you’re involved in the decisions, you have more ownership of whatever results.
Every time I run across this principle, which is surprisingly often, I’m surprised about its nuances. Whether we’re talking about our kids, employees, volunteers, partners … The fact is that people are more inspired and motivated by things they actually have some influence over.
You can tell your employees what to do, and in fact you may even think that’s your job. The problem is that they may not be particularly motivated to do their best work in this case. It’s not that your directions were wrong – it’s that they didn’t have any input in the process. So you get compliance, not engagement.
Read the rest of this entry »I was having a conversation the other day about responsibility, accountability, and authority.
Accountability seems to be the term that people struggle with the most, because it feels like it’s nothing but bad consequences. If everything goes right, then we look for people to credit. If things go wrong, then we look for who’s accountable.
Who to blame.
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The Values-Based Business 