Accountability
topic on 11 shows · 12 statements across 12 episodes
Founder's Journal 
In Depth 
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
My First Million 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Capital Allocators 
Big Technology
12 statements about Accountability, every show
Howard: Civil Service Reform Act Made Accountability Impossible
“The Civil Service Reform Act in 1978, which made it impossible to hold anybody accountable, you know, was at the end of the seventies”
Boureau: Effective Accountability Requires a Human Reference in the Loop
“And the thing that has been shown time and again in research is that you need some kind of accountability, and accountability works better if you have a human reference in the loop, someone who keeps you to your commitments, someone who checks in on you”
Bender: AI Bots Cannot Have Judgment or Accountability
“A bot is not the kind of thing that can have judgment, nor is it the kind of thing that can have accountability for exercising judgment.”
Lieberman: Shared functional ownership destroys accountability in leadership
“First is you must have one person leading and managing each major function. If you try to make more than one person responsible, no one will be responsible, so pick just one.”
Birla: Diversified institutional investor pools force companies to be more accountable
“When you have a different investor pool investing in the company, then, you know, investor expectations start to change. You become more accountable. Investors become more vocal.”
Klubeck: Accountability feels like an attack without full personal responsibility
“A lot of times people equate accountability with punishment. You know, accountability always feels like an attack if we're not ready. To be 100% responsible for our own behavior.”
LaPointe: Demanding employee accountability triggers threat systems and backfires
“Asking for accountability is the best way to not get it because acts asking for accountability activates people's safety systems, or especially saying I'm going to hold people accountable.”
Accountability means explaining your rationale, not being punished for mistakes
“Accountability, if you ask most people what accountability means, they say, well, it means if I don't do what I said I was going to do, I'm going to be in trouble. It's not what accountability means at all. Accountability means to give account, to give the sto…”
Isenberg: Accountability is massively underrated and underpriced
“First of all, I think accountability, massively underrated and underpriced, underpriced, underrated.”
Organizations must have 'one neck to choke' to maintain accountability
“There needs to be one neck to choke when it comes to any situation or any problem. Like if it's like, if I don't know who's in charge, if I don't know who's, who actually makes the call, then you lose one really powerful thing, which is accountability.”
Portfolio managers who blame outside factors struggle most to adapt
“If you're blaming the market, or you're blaming CEOs, or you're blaming your analyst, or you're blaming your trader, those are the people that I can just tell you have had the hardest time adapting.”
Markham: Fostering child accountability requires replacing blame with a solutions-oriented culture
“It is never about blame, and if you want children to take responsibility, it's a good idea to
Create a household that is no blame.
You could call it a solutions, not blame.
We're a family that looks for solutions, not blame.
So I would start there as a premise…”