Accountability and Blame: Breaking up For Good

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Accountability is the foundation of the relationship between a leader, the team and individual team members. Creating accountability is a fundamental and ongoing leadership practice. To hold someone accountable after a failure is to reexamine the accountability relationship, how organization systems have supported or failed it, and how to restructure it for success. That blame—an ego-defense to fear, anger, or shame—has been equated with accountability is simply evidence of a failure of leadership in organizations.

Safety, quality, and other leaders focused on operational excellence must become the champions of effective accountability and work to break up the association between accountability and blame for good. This means throwing out some ideas that have served us in the past but keep us from moving forward.

Topics to be discussed:

· Why we need to throw away Reason’s culpability model and its derivatives…