Responsibility vs. Accountability

1. Responsibility sometimes becomes a burden: A duty, obligation or liability to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. (How did you overlook this defect? That was your responsibility!)

2. To become ‘accountable’ is something driven internally – where your mind / heart is.

You can make a person responsible but can't make them accountable.

Accountability requires ‘commitment’ / ‘sense of ownership’.
Commitment comes from ‘self interest and confidence’.
‘Interest and confidence’ comes from ‘motivation and empowerment’.

So the bottom-line is "Empowerment and Motivation" makes a responsible person ‘accountable’.

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