ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results. In today's complex, highly competitive, global environment, those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability and remain focused on must-achieve desired results. Achieve with Accountability is your personal handbook for awakening your (or your team or organization's)inner confidence, drive, perseverance, determination, resolve, and can-do mindset. It will hone your skills and capacity to achieve what matters most. Discover what impels top-performing individuals, teams, and organizations to excel, thrive, and achieve their most desired results. Let leadership expert Mike Evans show you how to awaken and release from in you, your team, and your organization the discretionary performance that resides within, but is often left untapped. Transform accountability into an engaging, upbeat, positive, forward looking experience that will secure you, your team, and your organization a position in the new world of work. Cultivate resiliency, agility, and steely resolve Boost collaboration, teamwork, and camaraderie Crumble silos and abolish territorialism Establish unshakable trust and credibility Obliterate excuse-making and the blame-game Invigorate ownership, engagement, and alignment Unleash creativity and a focus on solutions As Mike Evans explains, when you abdicate accountability you relinquish control of your destiny and place your fate in the hands of other people and events. Without fluff, hyperbole, rhetoric, or complicated models, Achieve with Accountability reveals how individuals, teams, and organizations adopt and nourish the focus, determination, resolve, and perseverance needed to achieve what is most important. Complacency and the status quo are the death-knell to individuals, teams, and organizations. This must-have resource reveals how to develop the agility, flexibility, and resiliency to flourish in today's unpredictable world of constant change. The author details how to cultivate both individually and organizationally a resolute, whatever it takes, mindset to capitalize on opportunities and to overcome challenges, barriers, and obstacles. This essential guide arms you with an easily implemented game plan to eradicate the blame-game and vanquish the excuse making that stifles optimal performance. Learn how to embrace and instill a solutions focus even in the face of obstructions, impediments, and difficulties. You will learn how to extinguish the toxic peak- performance inhibitors of apathy, cynicism, entitlement, indifference, disarray, discomfort, and despair. Achieve with Accountability equips individuals, teams, and organizations with the keys to take control of their destiny to achieve what matters most. Use Achieve with Accountability as your guide to apply the accountability fundamentals that have allowed thousands of individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve and exceed their desired results. The Author xi Resources, Solutions, and Workshops xiii Preface: Taking Accountability xv Chapter 1 Taking Accountability 1 Positively the Best Decision 1 Take Accountability or Blame? The Stakes Are High 5 The Magic of Taking Accountability 6 The Rewards of Taking Accountability 10 Accountability Accelerator 11 Shine the Spotlight on the One and Only 15 An Unexpected and Illuminating Discovery 19 Do They Know the Rules of the Game? 21 Chapter 2 Choices 35 Decisions Determine Destiny 35 Stay the Course Avoid Drowning Below the Water 39 Beware of the Bell 43 Leading Accountability It Is a Choice, and Everyone s Job 46 Where Do They Learn Those Things? 49 Words Are Cheap The Actions We Choose Are What Matters 52 The Enemies: Justifications, Explanations, Reasons, Rationalizations, Vindications, and Excuses 54 Why Did Randy Cross the Road? 56 Chapter 3 Accountability What Is It? 67 Once Defined, It Flows 67 Are You Fully Recognizing Your Realities? 74 The Eyes Have It 76 Have You Accepted Ownership for Your Realities? 78 Yoda The Accountability Coach 81 Lessons from Hyrum 83 Solutions Abound 86 The Obvious Next Step 90 Chapter 4 Accountability Transcends 97 Powerful Shift in Perception 97 Cement the Focus 100 The Magical Mindset Shift 103 Lessons from the Marauders 106 Accountability Trumps Responsibility 109 To LAG or to LEAD 111 Chapter 5 The Preeminent Organization 117 Accountability Is the Catalyst 117 Shaping an Accountable Culture 120 Ignite Desired Accountable Behaviors 122 The Power of Genuine Appreciation 127 Culture: How We Do Things Around Here 129 Forging an Accountable Culture: Little Things Matter A Lot! 131 Are the Experiences in Your Culture Nurturing Accountability? 133 The Relationship Triad: Experiences, Beliefs and Actions 135 You Alone Are Accountable for How You Are Perceived 137 Sustaining an Accountable Culture: Tune-Ups Required 139 Accountability Tip: Do Not Shoulder Their Accountabilities 142 Do Not Dwell on Why: Keep Moving Forward 144 Accountability in Times of Change: Overcome Fear and Denial 146 The Pinnacle: The Accountable Organization 150 Live and Lead Accountably 161 Index 163