Accountability. Yes, we’d all like to know who’s accountable.
But that’s a funny word, isn’t it?
After all, isn’t responsibility the same thing?
Or as some smart ass wisely put it, ‘accountability is what’s left when you subtract responsibility’.
(That smart ass is Pasi Sahlberg, director of the Finnish Ministry of Education’s Center for International Mobility and author of the book Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?) Continue reading
Source: The Right Projects Done Right! – Dinsmore & Cooke-Davies
The Right Projects Done Right: From Business Strategy to Successful Project Implementation (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)
I have just finished reading a book on Project Management titled The Project Management Scorecard: Measuring The Success of Project Management Solutions by Jack J. Philips, Timothy W. Bothell & G. Lynne Snead.
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. –Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
The idea of a scorecard to track management practices, their results and continuous improvement in a closed loop system is not novel to me.
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