Chapter 5. Maximizing Your Performance
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” | ||
| --HARRY F. BANKS | ||
Attitude determines behavior. The first question addressing this issue is, are you accountable?
Accept Responsibility for Your Actions
Peter Drucker wisely points out that effective executives must develop character, foresight, self-reliance, and courage. Organizations, he reminds us, are made up of ordinary people who together must do extraordinary things. This cannot happen if people avoid responsibility.
People must be taught to be accountable.
Assuming responsibility may be hard, but if you don’t take charge, fearing that you may do something wrong, then you have failed. Long-term success requires the willingness to take charge ...
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