The Accountable Leader - by Brian Dive (Hardcover)

About the Book

Management consultant Dive explores the relationship between leadership, accountability, and organizational structure. He argues that the majority of leadership-related problems arise not from ineffective individuals but from organizational structures that lack accountable jobs.

Book Synopsis

The Accountable Leader is centred around three themes - leadership, accountability and organizational structure, and explores what it means for managers to be held to account at all levels in an organization. It will show that most leadership related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organisational structures that lack accountable jobs.

Complete with case study material and international examples, The Accountable Leader brings home the importance of accountability as the necessary and robust platform for the assessment of potential leaders and leadership development - and demonstrates how clear accountability enables managers to achieve much more within their roles.

The Accountable Leader was prestigiously voted one of 'The Thirty Best Business Books of 2008' by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, USA.

Review Quotes

"One of the 30 best business books of 2008." -- Soundview Executive Book Summary

"With so many institutional failures and with the economic meltdown, it's past time that leaders were held accountable. Finally a book that not only urges accountability but shows how it can be achieved!" -- Morgan W. McCall, author of High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders

"Useful correctives to organization architecture and accountability." -- Leading Blog

About the Author

Brian Dive runs his own business, DMA Consultancy (www.dmaconsultancy.com) and is a senior partner in Panthea Leadership consultancy (www.panthealeaderhip.com).