Day #60

Accountability

I describe Social Leadership as operating at the intersection of formal and social systems. So it operates somewhere in the middle. But there are still rules, and there is still accountability.

In a recent research project, looking at Communities within a global organisation, fully 60% of people believed that their work within those Communities took place under a different set of rules and permissions than their everyday work.

Which is interesting, because in some ways it’s wrong. If it’s ‘work’, it operates under work rules. And if it’s not work, it doesn’t. So how could there be a lack of clarity?

Well, largely because ‘work’ is no longer defined by time, or walls. So it’s less clear how, when, and where, we are accountable.

Use your sixty seconds today to think about this: how much of your ‘work’ is really ‘work’? And which set of rules, or assumptions, about accountability apply?