Achieve with Accountability: Ignite Engagement, Ownership, Perseverance, Alignment, and Change - Hardcover

by Mike Evans (Author)

ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results.

Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication

Achieve with Accountability presents a recipe for awakening the whatever it takes attitude to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations. Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick-start a revolution that will blast your team or organization to new heights of success. We are in a brawl with no rules, where the fast, flexible and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking and complacent. When you relinquish accountability you place your future in the hands of other people or events. It's only by taking accountability and ownership for our circumstances that we can achieve what matters most. Embrace the accountability fundamentals that have helped individuals, teams and organizations for years to achieve and exceed what matters most.

With the world coming at us fast and furious every day, it's easy to feel like you've lost control of your own life, your team or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny.

• Develop the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant change
• Foster a can-do, resolute, solutions focus in the face of difficult challenges, obstacles and barriers
• Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifles peak performance
• Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair
• Take control over your circumstances and achieve what matters most
• Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left untapped in individuals, teams and organizations
• Establish unshakable trust and credibility

Accountability is a current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your results are all your responsibility; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. Achieve with Accountability shows you how to nourish that can-do mindset, so you can begin to achieve what matters most.

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How Can You, Your Team, and Your Organization Excel and Achieve What Matters Most?

As business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an ever more rapid pace, we are often confounded by the no-rules business environment, where the fast, flexible and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking and complacent. Achieve with Accountability takes an engaging narrative approach through stories that teach how to unleash your individual, team's, and organization's optimal performance.

"Achieve with Accountability focuses on the principle that fits hand and glove with what I have spent most of my career teaching in the time and life management field, and that is the mindset of owning your life, owning your mistakes, owning your goals and owning your choices...Mike claims that you can 'transform accountability into a positive experience that can catapult your team and business to new heights, and achieve what matters most', and he is absolutely right."
-- HYRUM SMITH, co-founder, FranklinCovey and co-founder, 3Gaps

"A great read for anyone who wants to push the boundaries of personal, team or organizational performance. Mike demystifies accountability in a way that lowers the barriers to achievement."
-- ALAN FINE, bestselling author of You Already Know How To Be Great and Founder/President of InsideOut Development LLC

"During the many years, I've known Mike Evans, I have found him to be a real 'cut to the chase and let's make it simple' sort of a fellow. The groundbreaking work in this book clearly illustrates that point. In it, Evans dissects optimum human performance to its very foundation of accountability. For without it, there is only poor performance, sub-optimal performance or literally no performance at all. There is truly no 'reason to be'. Mike provides the reader with a prescription for optimal individual, team and organizational performance."
-- AL ADAMS, Former Executive Vice President, Tom Peters Company

"This work brings to life Mike's depth of understanding and work with organizations and the people who comprise them. A masterful leader and change agent, Mike unravels 'accountability, ' through insight, questioning, and execution models leading to high performance. A must read for those who want to excel and keep their organizations competitive."
-- PHYLLIS MOORE, Former Senior Vice President, Kotter International

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In today's complex, highly competitive, global environment, those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability and remain focused on must-achieve desired results. Achieve with Accountability is your personal handbook for awakening your (or your team or organization's) inner confidence, drive, perseverance, determination, resolve, and can-do mindset. It will hone your skills and capacity to achieve what matters most.

Discover what impels top-performing individuals, teams, and organizations to excel, thrive, and achieve their most desired results. Let leadership expert Mike Evans show you how to awaken and release from in you, your team, and your organization the discretionary performance that resides within, but is often left untapped. Transform accountability into an engaging, upbeat, positive, forward looking experience that will secure you, your team, and your organization a position in the new world of work.

• Cultivate resiliency, agility, and steely resolve
• Boost collaboration, teamwork, and camaraderie
• Crumble silos and abolish territorialism
• Establish unshakable trust and credibility
• Obliterate excuse-making and the blame-game
• Invigorate ownership, engagement, and alignment
• Unleash creativity and a focus on solutions

As Mike Evans explains, when you abdicate accountability you relinquish control of your destiny and place your fate in the hands of other people and events. Without fluff, hyperbole, rhetoric, or complicated models, Achieve with Accountability reveals how individuals, teams, and organizations adopt and nourish the focus, determination, resolve, and perseverance needed to achieve what is most important. Complacency and the status quo are the death-knell to individuals, teams, and organizations.

This must-have resource reveals how to develop the agility, flexibility, and resiliency to flourish in today's unpredictable world of constant change. The author details how to cultivate "both individually and organizationally" a resolute, whatever it takes, mindset to capitalize on opportunities and to overcome challenges, barriers, and obstacles. This essential guide arms you with an easily implemented game plan to eradicate the blame-game and vanquish the excuse making that stifles optimal performance. Learn how to embrace and instill a solutions focus even in the face of obstructions, impediments, and difficulties.

You will learn how to extinguish the toxic peak-performance inhibitors of apathy, cynicism, entitlement, indifference, disarray, discomfort, and despair. Achieve with Accountability equips individuals, teams, and organizations with the keys to take control of their destiny to achieve what matters most.

Use Achieve with Accountability as your guide to apply the accountability fundamentals that have allowed thousands of individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve and exceed their desired results.

Author Biography

MIKE EVANS is the Executive Vice President of QuestMark. He has served in senior leadership and consulting roles with Kotter International, FranklinCovey, and Tom Peters Company. He has developed a unique perspective from working alongside a star studded list of world-renowned thought leaders, including Dr. John Kotter, Dr. Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes, Hyrum Smith, Steve Farber and Chris McChesney. He consults with senior teams, delivers keynote speeches, facilitates custom workshops and provides coaching and consulting on a variety of subject areas, including Personal and Organizational Accountability, Change Leadership, Culture Shaping, Flawless Execution and Exemplary Leadership.

www.questmarkcompany.com; www.achievewithaccountability.com