Managing For Accountability

Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox contains everything business owners and managers need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable, high performing, engaged employees who invest one hundred percent in their jobs. This practical guide offers field-tested tools, strategies, and proven tactics for locating, developing and managing motivated, engaged, committed employees focused on performance, productivity, and results.Curry details pragmatic strategies that succeed despite the pandemic and that work effectively with all employees, whether they're top talent, those who occasionally falter, or come from diverse backgrounds and generations. If you want to create a culture of accountability in your workplace and develop high-performing teams that lead your business to unparalleled levels of success, you will want this invaluable resource close at hand. This is must read for every leader, owner, or manager.

In Managing for Accountability, Lynne Curry effectively distills 40 years of experience counseling companies across the globe into a practical, step-by-step guide that helps any leader and organization create and sustain a culture of accountability. Curry provides real-life experiences and field-tested solutions to recruit, retain, and inspire high-performing teams. The strategies in Managing for Accountability are useful, simple, and put immediate results within every leader's reach. The book is as enjoyable to read as it is valuable.--​​​​​​​ Mark D. Nelson, President and CEO, Bristol Bay Industrial, LLC, Managing for Accountability is a top choice in my library of recommended reads. Dr. Lynne Curry has assisted me, my partners, and employees through challenges for more than three decades. She's helped us to work together professionally to achieve our potential, always focused on excellence. She has always been responsive, straightforward, and direct with her meaningful advice and counsel assisting me to develop and grow in leadership.--Larry Cash, Founder and Chair of the Board, RIM Alaska, California, Guam, Hawaii, Managing for Accountability's author is brilliant, inspirational, creative, and brings a fresh and compassionate insight into the workplace. It is a comprehensive and well-written guidebook that every executive, manager, and supervisor will want on their desk. It promotes new ideas for improving employee performance, morale, and the bottom line while creating new cultures. I write this as a business leader with 35 plus years working in the resource and technology industry, government, and the nonprofit sector. This book is a necessary read for management and leaders to succeed in a changing business world, as well as creating future workplace cultures.--​​​​​​​Rebecca Parker, Executive Director of the Anchorage Senior Activity Center

Lynne Curry, PhD, is the president of Communication Works, Inc. (Anchorage, Alaska), the founder of Work Place Coach Blog and was the founder and CEO of The Growth Company, Inc., a nationally respected management consulting company she started in 1978 and sold in 2017. Lynne grew her company to be one in which her employees aligned with the company's mission and vision-and she has taught field-tested accountability skills and strategies to business owners, executives, managers and supervisors.