Why You Shouldn’t Make Team Members Responsible

Accountability - 1/2 Mile Responsibility - 2 Miles

One of the biggest mistakes that you can make as a leader is to make someone responsible for getting something done…We tend to equate responsibility with accountability and these are two, very-different words.  Responsibility is our ability to give a response, to act.  Implicit in this is a sense of timeliness.  If your response comes late, you aren’t being responsible.