The Corporate Purpose Podcast

Flipping the Script on Accountability

Episode Summary

New York Times Bestselling authors Michael Lennington and Brian Moran join the podcast to discuss accountability: what it is, what it isn't and how a lot of what we know and think about accountability is wrong. Michael and Brian explain how looking at accountability as choice is key to a thriving, successful culture.

Episode Notes

Michael Lennington and Brian Moran are the best-selling authors of The 12-week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months and experts in productivity and culture-building. They recently published the new book, Uncommon Accountability: A Radical New Approach to Greater Success and Fulfillment, which explores the shift away from the control view of accountability to an accountability as choice model. 

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Why choice is the crux of accountability,
• How to create an ownership mindset instead of a control mindset,
• Why holding people accountable usually leads to failure,
• What it means to hold people capable,
• The difference between consequences and accountability,
• The role purpose and mission play in building an accountability mindset, and
• Why this model for accountability is necessary in remote and hybrid work cultures.

You can connect with Michael Lennington and Brian Moran or learn more about the book by visiting www.uncommonaccountability.com. 

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