Story Behind The Book
Di Worrall is an award-winning business transformation executive, change management consultant, and executive coach to the world's most senior business leaders. She is also a published author and leading voice in the global movement of organisational change. Over the course of her career, she's developed a personal and professional mantra about what she sees as the number-one issue that makes or breaks leadership performance today: Accountability for outcomes, performance, and results. That mantra goes like this: "The degree to which you have developed the capacity to hold your organisation and its people accountable for the delivery of results is directly proportional to your capacity to either build--or hemorrhage--value from your organisation." ...An Early Accountability Lesson Becomes a Catalyst for Change In her first senior executive post, Di managed to turn a difficult accountability lesson into an opportunity for change when it became clear that the failure of her executive team to hold one another accountable was setting their entire organisation up to fail on its delivery of a major business initiative. Having no intention of letting the project go bad, Di led her fellow executives through specific actions to improve personal accountability throughout the leadership team. As a result, she managed to turn a pending loss into a remarkable profit. "Accountability was something we couldn't delegate," she says, recalling the initiative. "Much to our surprise, employees in our respective divisions started to intuitively follow suit, modelling our new behaviours." Inspired by that early experience, Di developed an enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge relating to the "new rules" of high accountability (you can read more about these in her book, Accountability Leadership), and has devoted her findings and expertise to enterprise transformation and change efforts ever since.
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<p>Accountability Leadership is a quality resource that will help leaders build a high performance culture where people achieve because they feel intrinsically accountable.<br /><br /> I love how Accountability Leadership has brought together a range of disciplines - including psychology, sociology, and management - to focus leaders on motivating people to feel accountable........ and how everyone in an organisation can benefit from this proven and fresh approach.<br /><br /> Di Worrall has challenged traditional command and control practices and incentive programs, by engagingly explaining the science of motivation, including the `Hawthorn Effect' and `Flow'. I found these concepts (and others in the book) to be fascinating, and could immediately see how they can be applied in any organisation.<br /><br /> Accountability Leadership makes it clear for leaders that communication, compelling consequences, and culture create the foundation for high performance. The book makes it easy to see how people are motivated, creative and content when there is a clearly communicated strategy, autonomy with understandable parameters, and a culture where people can grow and are recognised by leaders who are interested in what they do.<br /><br /> The great part about Accountability Leadership is that Di Worrall gives us a practical resource, and a framework to make it work. I'll be keeping this resource close to hand, and will highly recommend it the other executives and leaders who want to create or sustain high performing teams. </p> <p>Joanna Clark</p>