November 1, 2012 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Responsibility differs from Accountability

At the   executive level, you supervise too many projects most liekly to be involved hands on with all of them.  Still,   you’re accountable for them.  Thus, you must be able to trust yoru team absolutely.    If their work is poort, the blame is yours for having chosen them.  And your boss won’t care why the work is poor; he or she will just want it fixed.  Making a team run smoothly is difficult.  Problems arise.  You have to re-evaluate decisions and tweak processes.  Establish systems and   criteria for monitoring your team’s progress or you’re sunk.