文档介绍：The IdeaBridge White Paper Series:
The Leadership Series:
Responsibility for Results
The IdeaBridge
White Paper Series
THE LEADERSHIP SERIES: RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESULTS 1
Summary
Many Leaders have the misguided notion that now that they've been promoted they've earned the right to
relax. Forget it. Leaders are responsible for results. Period. Leaders achieve results differently than
managers or task-oriented employees. But heless, the Leader's primary responsibility is to the
shareholders, and shareholders demand results. The few points that follow will serve as a wake-up call
for those Leaders who may have forgotten that they are responsible for results. And when they don't get
results, the Leader must accept full responsibility for the failure.
Accepting Responsibility/Accountability For Results
• Leaders place an unrelenting focus on results. They want results, not “best efforts.” We have too
long rewarded, even celebrated, “best efforts”, despite failure. Achieving results is in the control of
your leadership. Leaders have a responsibility to lead change and to tackle reality head-on, despite
the inevitable outside influences that can impact results. Leaders do not offer excuses...they deliver
essful results.
• True leadership involves not only the exercise of authority, but also full acceptance of responsibility.