Month: April 2024

Learn. Grow. Lead.

The Emphatic Denial of Accountability

Look around your organization for examples of the type of behavior that leads to that emphatic denial of accountability, because if you choose to force that employee into doing something that leads to disaster, his response may very well be “I was just following orders.”

An illustration from 1919 depicts Zebulon Pike with his party of explorers in the Rocky Mountains. "Lost with Lieutenant Pike" by Edwin L. Sabin, 1919

Righting Pike’s Wrong

Preparation is about having a plan of attack, being able to visualize the possible barriers to success and then being ready to conquer them with the proper tools.