Accountable Leadership Quotes & Sayings

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. — Phyllis Bottome

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is — Doug Collins

Leadership is a privilege to serve and make a difference. Take care of what belongs to another as if it were your own. Be accountable to others or to another because you realize you are not a master. Be considerate of those you serve because they, not you, perceive the difference you are or you are not making, in their lives. — Archibald Marwizi

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. — Dorothy Thompson

No leader can possibly have all the answers ... The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action ... The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with ... this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company. — Steve Miller

Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries — Fela Durotoye

Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job. — Liz Weber

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group
a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. — Cornel West

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter. — Jessica Savitch

DELPHI: That's the thing, isn't it? About friendships. You don't know what he needs. You only know he needs it. Find him, Scorpius. You two - you belong together. — Jack Thorne

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable. — David Cottrell

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints. — Wayde Goodall

Evil don't die. It just waits. — Jonathan Maberry

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?' — Mark Zuckerberg

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day — Thomas Narofsky

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you. — Noel DeJesus

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. — Lena Horne

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. — Steve Ballmer

The difficulties (which other people surely find incredible) I have in speaking to people arise from the fact that my thinking, or rather the content of my consciousness, is entirely nebulous, that I remain undisturbed by this, so far as it concerns only myself, and am even occasionally self-satisfied; yet conversation with people demands pointedness, solidity, and sustained coherence, qualities not to be found in me. No one will want to lie in clouds of mist with me, and even if someone did, I couldn't expel the mist from my head; when two people come together it dissolves of itself and is nothing. — Franz Kafka

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable. — Peter Cosgrove

your visit?' 'My superiors wish to come aboard to — Anthony Grey

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself. — Cherrie Moraga

Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions. — Danny Glover

You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results. — Buck Rodgers

No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led. — Eric Metaxas

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model. — Robert Sherrill

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable! — Andy Stanley

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person. — Bob Proctor