This is the Read to Lead podcast episode 420.

Stop trying to hold your team accountable.

You're actually preventing them from performing.

Instead, hold them capable.

You know, that may sound like semantics,

but it's subtly and profoundly different all at the same time in that when we hold our team

capable, we confront, but we don't confront out of the gate with consequences. We confront

with freedom, freedom of choice. Personal accountability is the bedrock upon which all sustained

success in life is built.

Yet what if nearly everything we've been taught about accountability is wrong?

What if the prevailing notions of holding someone accountable and being held accountable are impossible, and instead of driving accountability, actually undermine it?

Hi there, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast.

It's the podcast that's dedicated to your personal and your professional growth

and the belief that if you want to experience true success in your business and in your life,

that intentional and consistent reading is where to start.

Today we are joined by authors Brian Moran and Michael Lenington.

Co-authors of one of my all-time favorite productivity books called The Twelve Week

Year, and they've got a brand new book out called Uncommon Accountability, a radical new

approach to greater success and fulfillment. I'll be asking Brian and Michael to share about what it

means to have an accountable mindset, how to create as a leader an accountable shadow,

what leveraging the uncomfortable looks like, and much more.

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