QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life

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OF COURSE I agree that the only person you can change is yourself - and that is why personal accountability is so important because you can't change others, BUT if I don't have a fundamental understanding of WHY my company chose to do X or WHY my company hasn't implemented Y ----- then I probably don't have a very good idea of my employer's vision, direction, goal, target outcome, etc. Take an afternoon and read this short and focused book on personal accountability and you will start looking at “problems” as opportunities for improvement. So many people waste their time and energy complaining about what everyone else is doing wrong, instead of looking within themselves on how they can make a situation better.

Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the value of our own accountability.has worked with hundreds of Fortune 500 and other companies and governmental and non-government organizations internationally. However, how does one prevent "silos" from happening if every individual is only looking at what they can do? For training to succeed, accountability must be established as a core value within the organization.

It's all wasted if we're unclear on what learning really is: Learning is not attending, listening or reading. This is a short enough book that I assigned it to a few of the people on my team I'm trying to develop for future leaders but also used some of the examples in our weakly meetings to talk about and identify how to change mindsets and work together to do less finger pointing and more how can I help fix this issue. Unfortunately, this book encourages you, not to look deeper into the root cause of the problem, but to use "personal accountability" to take action and solve the superficial manifestations of the problem. No one can successfully achieve goals and new objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, make change in their community or lead other people without personal accountability.If you have a positive/calm attitude and the mindset of someone who can only control yourself and wants to do everything possible to be a positive force and contribution to your environment, it doesn't matter what word you use to start your sentences with. i decided to continue on and though i learned a lot and think what he's trying to teach people is great (but i still think he shouldn't have used that example! Learning, Ownership, Creativity, Service, and Trust are the five Advantage Principles needed to gain the edge in every area of life.

on a cross coountry flight the flight attendant got on the intercom and said, 'Sorry everyone but the movie we promised you will not be shown today. Miller knows that the troubles that plague them cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others.Succinct, insightful and practical, this book provides the tools for putting personal accountability into daily action, with astonishing results. mini-chapters are squeezed into 115 pages, each carrying the message of accepting responsibility for your own choices, actions and attitude. was written more than a decade ago and has helped countless readers practice personal accountability at work and at home. This is a hideous, hideous book that I, like many people in shitty low-wage/no benefit jobs was required to read for work. I was given this to read in the first 30 days of my new job, and I must say it’s a great way to reset your mind before things get hectic.

I agree with the author because I think that people should take responsibility for their own actions and not blame other people.I don't know about the United states but many of the examples in this book are the exacts formula for losing your job, sometimes even without notice, in some organizations in Europe and Asia. However, his major premise that we do not ask why or who but only what I can do misses the mark completely. The Question Behind the Question and Flipping the Switch: Five Keys to Success at Work and in Life . The "ducking responsibility" questions make us a subservient, while the action-oriented questions put us in control. It was filled with so much trite nonsensical "just be better" self-help cliches that I almost couldn't finish it.