The “Accountability” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2020

Accountability can be harnessed by motivating your employees to achieve higher than expected results and build a culture of learning, trust, and professionalism.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of ”Accountability” quotes in “Digital Master.”


1 Most problems are systemic and require systemic solutions where people take accountability for their part in describing and solving them.

2 It is not uncommon to confuse accountability with blame. They are actually opposites. Shared accountability or collective accountability involves shared ownership, empathetic communication, the true measure of accountability is about resilience.

3 Accountability can be harnessed by motivating your employees to achieve higher than expected results and build a culture of learning, trust, and professionalism.

4 Accountability goes hand in hand with the delegation of authority or power. Accountability is part of personal integrity. If you ensure the individuals have autonomy within their tasks or projects you will be able to address performance on an equal partnership base.

5 Accountability needs to be well embedded in the business culture, for individuals taking responsibility for what they DO and what they SAY!

6 Accountability needs a safe environment. That starts with leaders at the top. Behaving accountable is the result of culture with values that need to be organized and nurtured.

7 There are some structural issues with accountability. If one is to hold another accountable (peer or subordinate) for achieving some result, there is a set of conditions that must be fulfilled in advance on the "receiver" side.

8 It is the effectiveness of the Board of Directors in delegating to the senior management team and holding them accountable that supports the management team in achieving outcomes.

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