CHAPTER 5Enable Accountability and Innovation

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

~ Moliere

This isn’t a chapter on how to “hold others” accountable, set and manage goals, or accomplish classic supervisory or management-related tasks. It’s not a chapter about the external elements of accountability found in compliance, or in standards-driven or regulation-required disclosures to eliminate legal risk—as if saying, “Hey, I told you.” Nor is it a chapter concerned with the mandated account-giving approaches of many industries, institutions, companies, and leaders. Although all these elements have a place in instilling confidence in societal or organizational systems, in public and legal frameworks, ...

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