QBQ" became our new mantra and managers were constantly hounding us to answer the "Question Behind the Question. If you've read ANY stoic philosophy this book tries to teach you those principles through a VERY poor imitation of Patrick Lencioni's "fable" style of storytelling.

It was filled with so much trite nonsensical "just be better" self-help cliches that I almost couldn't finish it. No organization—or individual—can successfully compete in the marketplace, achieve goals and objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, or develop people without personal accountability.The Question Behind the Question and Flipping the Switch: Five Keys to Success at Work and in Life . The Question Behind the Question (QBQ) is a great starter book to identify when you are asking an incorrect question as opposed to a productive question. There are times where it is imperative to look at the actions of others and how the team impacts and effects productivity. Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the power of personal accountability.

and its message of personal accountability works equally well for corporations, academia, nonprofits, churches, and government organizations. Miller is to the point, refreshing, and practical as he shows the path toward becoming an exceptional organization. With that in mind, this was a good reminder of the answer to the age old question put to anarchism: Who will take out the trash? Like many business books, this book can be summarized on a postcard: Take more personal responsibility for the problems you encounter. No one can successfully achieve goals and new objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, make change in their community or lead other people without personal accountability.Miller knows that the troubles that plague them cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others.

Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent here, but I think books that espouse philosophies such as this book does are actually dangerous. Workbook includes a variety of powerful questions and activities to enhance the readers’ understanding and application of the QBQ!

Here's an integrity test for anyone who's part of an organiziation: Does what we say about our organization while we're at work match what we say at home?

Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, victim-thinking, and procrastination. in Spanish is yet another tool to help organizations and people make personal accountability a core value! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. OF COURSE I agree that the only person you can change is yourself - and that is why personal accountability is so important because you can't change others, BUT if I don't have a fundamental understanding of WHY my company chose to do X or WHY my company hasn't implemented Y ----- then I probably don't have a very good idea of my employer's vision, direction, goal, target outcome, etc. AllThatSheCarried by Tiya Miles is an eye-opening social history of love and resilience, and an insightful testament to the people who are left out of the archives.has worked with handredsd of Fortune 500 and other companies, governmental and non-government organizations around the world. I also agree that blame can become toxic but sometimes you do need to address a leaky pipe, rather than do what you can to mop up water but take no action to figure out where the leak is coming from. mini-chapters are squeezed into 115 pages, each carrying the message of accepting responsibility for your own choices, actions and attitude. Learning, Ownership, Creativity, Service, and Trust are the five Advantage Principles needed to gain the edge in every area of life.