Funny, I was reading this month’s Entrepreneur magazine, when I read about Guy Kawasaki‘s column titled The Art of Execution — which when I googled, resulted in the same exact post on his blog a year and a half ago. Repackaging old content as new content, are we?
Anyway, the advice is still worth the entrepreneur’s time to read. My favorite was #6:
Establish a single point of responsibility. If you ask your employees who is responsible for a goal, and no one can answer you in ten seconds, then it means that there’s not enough accountability. If more than one person is responsible for the achievement of a goal, then no one is responsible. Good employees accept responsibility. Great employees seek responsibility. Lousy employees avoid responsibility.
Which kind of employee are you?