Stanley Milgram’s notorious obedience experiment shocked the world—literally. In the 1960s, he asked participants to deliver what they believed were painful electric shocks to a stranger, simply ...

Keeping a team accountable is hard work. And as a leader it’s important to understand that accountability is the cornerstone of effective leadership. It’s the adhesive that binds trust, responsibility ...

When Netflix recommends you watch “Grace and Frankie” after you’ve finished “Love,” an algorithm decided that would be the next logical thing for you to watch. And when Google shows you one search ...

Most of us have experienced well-intentioned leaders who miss the mark. At one extreme is the command-and-control leader whose “my way or the highway” approach alienates more than inspires. At the ...

Big public lessons in accountability (or lack thereof) have become too frequent across all walks of life. And Urban Meyer is just the latest in the tiny niche of revered college football coaches in ...

An effective approach to manage and maintain employee accountability is to consider how to make it part of your company’s culture, what I call your “Contractor’s DNA.” If accountability is not part of ...

When it comes to managing — whether in a team or even in a family unit — learning how best to instill accountability is an important part of making tasks flow smoothly and getting everything done. I ...

Lack of a system has been cited by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a contributing factor in dozens of firefighter line-of-duty deaths (LODDs), and recently, a fire ...

Katrina Anderson has an avid interest in film, TV, and pop-culture. She has a MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University. Her thesis project described the literary qualities of the ...