Accountable Leaders: Inspire a Culture Where Everyone Steps Up, Takes Ownership, and Delivers Results

by Vince Molinaro

Proven methods to push your organization to its maximum potential with responsible leadership

Accountable Leaders is the real-world guide to propelling your business to extraordinary levels of performance and achievement. Leadership accountability is a major issue in organizations around the globe. Research has shown that teams and individual employees are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the degree of accountability demonstrated by their leaders. Effective teams need responsible and accountable leaders--the solution seems simple. Yet, thousands of businesses are struggling with mediocre performance and widening gaps in leadership. This essential resource provides practical and no-nonsense strategies to transform any organization into a cohesive, highly motivated culture of accountable leaders and fully committed teams.

Bestselling author Dr. Vince Molinaro shares his proven methods of optimal leadership accountability, providing a step-by-step blueprint for leaders in any organization. Developed from years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies build strong leaders and effective teams, this book will enable you to:

Build strong leadership accountability to leverage competitive advantage, increase team performance, and close the leadership gap in your organization Understand why gaps in leadership occur and recognize accountability issues in your own organization Develop an effective strategy to instill a culture of accountability and responsibility in your business Identify and implement organizational practices that encourage accountable leadership throughout your management structure Accountable Leaders is a vital guide for anyone who leads a team: from managers and supervisors, to CEOs and CHROs. This invaluable guide will provide the tools and knowledge to take you and your organization to incredible levels of performance and achievement.

Genres: Leadership

272 pages, Hardcover

Published June 10, 2020

Reviews

[Faith]

Full disclosure: I skimmed a lot of this book, either because certain sections didn't apply to me (for corporate CEOs or higher ups in businesses) or I was bored to death by the writing style. I don't want to give it a rating because of this, though there were parts that interested me quite a lot. Here are some things I want to remember:
" ...whenever I have found myself in situations that were down right awful, I worked hard to try to change them. And if I couldn't, I left the organization. Why? Simply because I have come to learn that life is too short to spend it being miserable at work."
"...defined(,) culture is the distinguishing features-the specific values, behaviours, and ways of doing things that are unique from one organization to another. ... It is also important to understand that culture connects to values, which represent what is fundamentally critical to an organization. Values guide behaviors, and decision making and, in turn, those behaviors, repeatedly reinforced through action, create culture. Culture is about expectations, what an organization values, and what it condones."

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

My good friend Vince Molinaro continues his trilogy of books giving clear-eyed leadership advice for those who want to head up organizations today. Molinaro begins by noting the instability of the era, and how that intensifies the stakes for leaders. Leaders need to step up, and too many of them are not prepared. The book spells out, in clear and compelling language, how organizations and individual leaders together can create the culture that makes for accountability -- and get results.

[Christopher Sharkey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of practical advice for leaders, especially those at the CEO and CHRO level, on how to build leadership accountability. This is best read when you can drive organizational change or when in a group of leaders who can work together for change. Dr. Molinaro has tailored the book for organizations with typical hierarchical or matrix structures.

[Divyesh Sheth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book that defines what accountable leadership looks like. Author dies a good job if explaining the accountability principles, however book is thin on practical real world examples and how to make the hard changes.