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method preferred by your boss is used. If you have a boss, it is your responsibility,
and you are accountable for discovering and using whichever of
these two means of communication your boss prefers.”
<strong>Drucker</strong> Lesson Summary
Everyone in a corporation, both management and labor, is responsible and
accountable for various aspects of the success of any of the organization’s
endeavors. Executives cannot avoid this accountability when they have
the ability to take action which avoids a threat, solves a problem, or takes
advantage of an opportunity. Mid-level managers cannot avoid accountability
even when it springs from an action that might have been taken, but
was not, by a boss. And workers, too, are part of the team. They and their
union are also accountable for actions which help or hinder the organization
that employs them. Accountability is enhanced by means of a written
charter and attention to communications both by boss and by employee.