I Am Accountable: Ten Choices that Create Deeper Meaning in Your Life, Your Organization, and Your World

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Sound Wisdom, Nov 19, 2019 - Business & Economics - 256 pages
What if you could transform your relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your colleagues and clients, and your larger community through the power of commitment? What if ten simple choices enabled you to enhance your leadership skills, improve your organizational culture, and make a local, national, or even global impact?
 
In I Am Accountable, renowned speaker and consultant Sam Silverstein explains how accountability is the secret to filling your life with more meaning, more success, and more joy—and it all starts with your mindset. In order to create a truly meaningful life, we must first accept that the problem is never other people. “The real problem,” Sam Silverstein maintains, “is what we believe about other people.”
 
Silverstein’s new book shows why everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong. Contrary to popular belief, accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. It is how we think about ourselves and others. And it is the highest form of leadership.
 
The secret to creating accountable relationships, and elevating the personal benchmark that Silverstein calls The Accountability Index™, lies in making ten critical choices that support an accountable mindset. I Am Accountable offers a comprehensive plan to help you establish and leverage that mindset, deepen commitments, create lasting meaning in your life and relationships, transform the culture within your organization, and foster lasting positive change in the world.

 
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Problem of Incongruence
The Choice Pointsand the Ten Commitments
Commit to a Safe Space 11 Commit to My Word Is My Bond 12 Commit to Stand Strong When All Hell Breaks Loose 13 Commit to a Good Reputat...
The Leaders Commitments 15 Commit to Discover and Realize Your Potentialand to Help Others Reach Theirs
Commit to the Truth
Commit to the Values
Commit to Its All Of Us
Commit to Stand With You When All Hell Breaks Loose 24 Commit to a Good Reputation
Commit to Discover and Realize Your Potentialand to Help
Commit to the Truth
Commit to Its All of Us
Commit to Sound Financial Principles
Help My Leader Is Not Accountable
Why Accountability?
BUILDING AN ACCOUNTABLE WORLD

Commit to Embrace Faults and Failures as Well as Opportunities and Successes
Commit to Sound Financial Principles
Commit to a Safe Space
Commit to My Word Is My Bond
Accountable People Take a Stand for the Community
The Three Standards of an Accountable Legacy
The Love Factor
Index

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SAM SILVERSTEIN is founder and CEO of The Accountability Institute™ and the creator of the Certified Accountability Advisor™ designation. Sam’s mission is to build a more accountable world. He is the author of several books, including No More Excuses, Non-Negotiable, No Matter What, The Success Model, Making Accountable Decisions, The Lost Commandments, I Am Accountable, and The Theory of Accountability. Sam speaks internationally and works with teams from companies, government agencies, communities, and organizations both big and small to build workplace cultures that inspire and prioritize accountability. His clients include PetSmart, Kraft Foods, Pfizer, the United States Air Force, and United Way. Sam is the past president of the National Speakers Association and has been inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame.
 

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