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Accountability

Accountability

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Accountability

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- The only way to ensure your initiatives get completed is to hold people accountable. Every single initiative on your prioritization list should have a very clear initiative owner. One person you can hold accountable for delivering results on that project. You'll need appropriate reporting and metrics to be able to tell is the initiative on track or not. If an initiative is scheduled to deliver say, a million dollars by the end of the year, and by June you're at 50,000, you should probably know that as soon as possible so you can take appropriate corrective action to get that initiative back on track. The reporting and metrics are a critical element of driving accountability. And those initiative owners must be held accountable for managing the plans and delivering results. If they're not delivering, you as their leader need to find out why. And if they need resources, your job is to provide them. If they're not meeting…

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