Just Said It

Project Manager's, Sales People, and Engineers all need to be personally accountable. But what does personal accountability mean in today's team based environment where even the simple projects require multiple people with specialized skill sets? How do you separate items of personal accountability when everything is so inter dependent? For the manager today it can be a real challenge to manage the goals and objectives of each team member, but its even more difficult to attach singular accountability.

This is made even more difficult when you have to ask 10 follow up questions to get to the point of a simple answer.  Many of us today seem to be adept at answering around a question?   Perhaps this is a trait spurred by watching 24 hour news where politicians and media personnel seem to never be able to answer directly.

Here is an illustrative video to make my point . . . .