QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life

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Miller advocates personal accountability, an almost novel concept in today's litigious world of finger pointing, excuse making and not-my-fault thinking. another jewelry lady suggested this book to a few of us for our business, so i picked it up and finally decided to read it. No one can successfully achieve goals and new objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, make change in their community or lead other people without personal accountability. TheDeorhord by Hana Videen is a fascinating collection of medieval creatures large and small, and a delightful dive into Old English.

There were some short stories in this book that we’re somewhat intriguing and relatable, yet a lot of them I didn’t like very much. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, victim-thinking, and procrastination.Also when working on a big project with other people/ teams " What can I do" is only a very small part of the equation.

The "ducking responsibility" questions make us a subservient, while the action-oriented questions put us in control. There are always trade offs right, but starting with a new team I found there were a few people in it that played the blame game actively and while some statements made might be true they weren't productive to getting work done. Flip the switch to release the power of personal accountability and watch your career take off and your relationships flourish!I think creating rules on what words can start your sentences and what words can't is too simplistic. Not bad advice, although it talks about not blaming others or complaining, but doesn't address the issues of not blaming yourself for everything and not feeling like everything is your fault (which seems like a trap you could fall into).

This remarkable and timely book provides a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily actions, with astonishing results: problems are solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teams thrive, and people adapt to change more quickly. There is nothing, not even an anecdote, that shows anyone applying the QBQ principle and having their life or business improve. I think this book has high and lows but deserves this rating for having some decent stories and for how long the book is.an organisational development company dedicated to making personal accountability a core value for organisations and individuals. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Asking questions that begin with "What" or "How" and contain and "I" brings our focus back to ourselves. We're going through a merger and a lapse in contract at my job and a lot ,of the employees are anti management and its very much a we vs.

Your organization will soon become a hackathon, a bunch of people albeit engaged and hard at work, but unknowingly duplicating the same thing and thus wasting energy and wasting efforts that could be put to better use in an orchestrated manner. Christmas is just around the corner, but DON’T PANIC: we’re here to provide you with the ultimate festive gifting inspiration, and remind you that books are certainly the easiest presents to wrap…!

It’s just the simplest and most effective concept to help turn things around, no matter what those things are. He proposes that instead of asking who is to blame for the situation, we should ask, "What can I do to improve the situation?