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Accountable Leaders: Inspire a Culture Where Everyone Steps Up, Takes Ownership, and Delivers Results Hardcover – June 10 2020

by Vince Molinaro (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
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Proven methods to push your organization to its maximum potential with responsible leadership

Accountable Leaders is the real-world guide to propelling your business to extraordinary levels of performance and achievement. Leadership accountability is a major issue in organizations around the globe. Research has shown that teams and individual employees are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the degree of accountability demonstrated by their leaders. Effective teams need responsible and accountable leaders―the solution seems simple. Yet, thousands of businesses are struggling with mediocre performance and widening gaps in leadership. This essential resource provides practical and no-nonsense strategies to transform any organization into a cohesive, highly motivated culture of accountable leaders and fully committed teams.

Bestselling author Dr. Vince Molinaro shares his proven methods of optimal leadership accountability, providing a step-by-step blueprint for leaders in any organization. Developed from years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies build strong leaders and effective teams, this book will enable you to:

  • Build strong leadership accountability to leverage competitive advantage, increase team performance, and close the leadership gap in your organization
  • Understand why gaps in leadership occur and recognize accountability issues in your own organization
  • Develop an effective strategy to instill a culture of accountability and responsibility in your business
  • Identify and implement organizational practices that encourage accountable leadership throughout your management structure

Accountable Leaders is a vital guide for anyone who leads a team: from managers and supervisors, to CEOs and CHROs. This invaluable guide will provide the tools and knowledge to take you and your organization to incredible levels of performance and achievement. 

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  2. ISBN-13
    978-1119550112
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Wiley
  5. Publication date
    June 10 2020
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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Practical and no-nonsense strategies for driving your organization to its maximum potential with accountable leadership, from the author of The Leadership Contract

Accountable Leaders is your practical, step-by-step guide for creating an extraordi­nary culture of accountability and responsibility in any organization. As companies worldwide are experiencing significant change and disruption on all fronts, the need for strong leadership has never been more urgent. Lead­ers need to be better than ever before, yet thousands of businesses are failing to achieve desired results. Far too many leaders are willing to accept average performance, causing a ripple effect of mediocrity that spreads throughout an organization. People are fed up with poor leadership accountability, uncommitted teams, and uninspiring or, even worse, toxic cultures―research has shown that only fifteen percent of companies have the culture they need to succeed. We all must do better and can do better.

Strategic leadership expert and bestselling author Dr. Vince Molinaro provides you with proven methods and powerful, real-world strategies for transforming your organization into a cohesive, inspirational culture of accountable leaders and committed teams. Based on Molinaro’s years of success driving Fortune 500 companies to extraordinary levels of performance and achievement, this must-have resource will help you take ownership of your responsibility, build accountability in yourself and at all levels of your management structure, and develop a compelling, high-performing culture throughout your organization.

Are you ready to commit to being an accountable leader? Build a strong com­munity of accountable leaders and increase team performance? Close the leadership gap in your organization? Identify and correct accountability issues? Instill a culture of accountability and responsibility? Propel your business to extraordinary results? Accountable Leaders will show you how.

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PRAISE FOR ACCOUNTABLE LEADERS

"Accountable Leaders outlines a compelling vision of leadership. Through our work at Mighty Networks, I know that when you create community and connection, it will fuel people to come together to do the extraordinary. Vince Molinaro shows exactly how you can build a vibrant community of leaders in your own company to tackle challenges, drive change, and create incredible results."
―Gina Bianchini, Founder and CEO, Mighty Networks

"Building on Vince's prior work, Accountable Leaders is a roadmap for leveraging talent and culture to drive transformational change. The performance-driven organization achieves results through individuals and teams that are empowered and highly committed to the success of each other and the enterprise. As I reflect on what it means to me to be an accountable leader, I am excited to put these lessons into practice and share them with my team."
―Kurt Ekert, President and CEO, CWT

"This book unapologetically calls all leaders and organizations to step up and hold accountability front and center. Making a compelling case through insightful examples, Dr. Molinaro paints a startling and accurate picture of the price we pay for the lack of accountability. He then offers hope and direction by providing a clear way forward.??Read this book and be inspired to be an accountable leader for yourself, for your team, and for your organization!"
―Tricia Naddaff, President/Owner, MRG

"In Accountable Leaders, Dr. Vince Molinaro clearly shows how organizations can scale accountable leadership at every level. This book will be the go-to manual for any CEO, head of human resources, or board looking to establish a strong leadership culture and drive successful transformation."
―Dr. Ricardo Viana Vargas, Executive Director, Brightline Project Management Institute

"Vince has created a simple, profound, and practical masterpiece to guide the mobilization of leadership accountability. The examples and tools he shares are clear, user-friendly, and resonate well regardless of the industry you work in or size of your organization. He continues to demystify what it takes to develop great leaders."
―Giulia Cirillo, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, PSP Investments

"Accountable Leaders addresses one of the most important qualities that every organization, leader, and employee must take seriously in order to have a successful culture and business. Through compelling stories, first-hand experiences, and thoughtful strategies, Vince makes a direct link between accountability and higher performance. Ignore this book at your own peril."
―Dan Schawbel, author of Back to Human, Promote Yourself, and Me 2.0

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 1st edition (June 10 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119550114
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119550112
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 35 ratings

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Vince Molinaro

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Vince Molinaro, PhD, is a global leadership adviser, speaker, and researcher on leadership accountability. As the founder and CEO of Leadership Contract Inc., Dr. Molinaro travels the world helping organizations build vibrant leadership cultures with truly accountable leaders.

Vince experienced a defining moment early in his career when he saw a respected colleague and mentor succumb to cancer that she believed was the byproduct of a stressful, toxic work environment. As a result, he has made it his life’s work to boldly confront mediocre and unaccountable leadership.

Vince calls out the global leadership crisis today and thoughtfully lays out the strategy to address it head-on. His unique combination of provocative storytelling, evidence-based principles and grounded practicality has leaders at all levels stepping up to fulfill their obligations to drive the success of their organizations.

He is a New York Times best-selling author and has published several books including Accountable Leaders (Wiley, 2020), The Leadership Contract (3rd ed., Wiley, 2018) and The Leadership Contract Field Guide (Wiley, 2018). He has also co-authored two other books: Leadership Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and The Leadership Gap (Wiley, 2005).

Vince lives leadership accountability every day as an entrepreneur and global executive. His research and writing on leadership accountability are featured in some of the world’s leading business publications. He also shares his insights in his Gut Check for Leaders blog and through the Accountable Leaders App available from the Apple and Google App Stores.

Vince and his family live near Toronto, Canada.

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dpain
5.0 out of 5 stars Accountable
Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2021
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Dan Pontefract
5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Field Guide for Accountability
Reviewed in Canada on October 17, 2020
Best-selling author Dr. Vince Molinaro is back with another fantastic book titled, “Accountable Leaders: Inspire a Culture Where Everyone Steps Up, Takes Ownership, and Delivers Results.” I’ve had the privilege of knowing Vince for many years. Although I’m biased, the book is not only an excellent addition to your collection; it’s certain to question your level of accountability as a leader.

The key message in the book is that accountability is what differentiates great leaders from mediocre ones. Over his 30 years of research, consulting, speaking, and ground-breaking writing across the globe, Vince has discovered that many people in leadership roles simply are not accountable. The crux of the book not only highlights this point, but it delves into the importance of accountable leadership and how to become one.

In summary, “Accountable Leaders” will undoubtedly help you (and your organization) with the need to become more accountable. But Vince doesn’t pull any punches either, as this passage demonstrates:

“Sustaining strong leadership accountability in an organization takes hard work. Most companies I work with struggle with this. Typically, they invest most of their energy up-front in defining clear leadership expectations. However, many fail to spend the time necessary to ensure things sustain over the long term.”

Indeed, as Vince suggests, “accountability eats mediocrity for breakfast.”
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Kstn
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it.
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2023
References typical/standard leadership concepts. This is the type of book written by C suite that caters to and parrots back the language and concepts the C suite wants to hear. My summary: be accountable and others will too: also be ethical and others will too. Hopefully, I saved someone a read.
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clarice ignatius
5.0 out of 5 stars Delivery within estimated time arrival.
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
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Steve Seymour
5.0 out of 5 stars got it quickly and in great condition
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
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go slowly with this read, it's very detailed
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1844 Prophecy
4.0 out of 5 stars Accountability breeds Accountability - How to create accountability?
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2021
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Accountability breeds accountability, mediocrity breeds mediocrity. This is true. Attitudes and behaviors are like a viral infection. They don't just impact a single individual.

Accountability is a good thing at both the individual and organizational levels. Now the tough part, how do we influence people toward accountability?

Dr. Molinaro suggests several tactics. I will cover four approaches here:

1. Contracts that spell out a leaders responsibility.

My old accounting friends would agree with this approach. There is a saying in accounting - what gets measured gets accomplished.

2. Must be fully committed to your leadership role.

New leaders need to mentored into their new role so they can more fully grasp their new responsibilities. There is truth in the saying monkey see, money do. Each one of us has an impact with someone somewhere. Warren Buffett was on to something with his hiring qualifications. Intelligent, Industrious, Integrity. Out of the three characteristics, Warren Buffett stresses Integrity. Why? Do your words match your deeds? The greatest impact is not what you say but what you do. This is a key element of integrity.

3. Model unselfish behavior, help out even if you are not required to do so.

Leadership seminars rarely work. However, personal involvement has an impact, especially when not required.

4. Leaders need to be regularly reminded of their impact for good or for bad.

Dr. Molinaro did not directly address this point. However, he does briefly mention it several times. Fighter pilots stress situational awareness as a survival skill. Leaders at all levels should constantly stress and be on the look out for the dangers of failing to match words and deeds. Cracks in a foundation start small.
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Brett
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-Written & Well-Researched!
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2021
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With today’s ease of publication, anyone can be an author - which means that I’m often suspicious of new books in popular fields (I.e., leadership like this one) from authors I haven’t heard of before - I’ve been burned on books that were basically the same few pages of ideas, re-worded, repeated over and over again or are so poorly written I can barely stand to read then. But I’m working on creating more accountability within my own team so I figured I’d give this book a try - particularly since the author’s prior Leadership Contract book was well-received.

And I’m glad I took the chance! This book is full of useful thoughts, ideas and methods for generating accountability within your team - starting with you and inspiring others to follow. It’s very well-written, flows well and is clearly well-researched (and annotated if you want to look up the author’s sources, you can tell he has quite the academic background!) - but beyond that, you can tell it’s written by someone that’s not just “been there and done that” but who has already helped others and taught others to do it to. (Unsurprising, since he talks about his long background in the field in the introduction, though not in an off putting way.)

Highly recommend this book for leaders (whether by title, or those who lead through inspiring and guiding others) or aspiring future leaders.
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