In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the importance of accountability in a company. A founder should be able to know how to instill accountability in their employees. The two main components to get accountability are ownership and consequences - having these things can make a huge difference in a company’s overall success.
Show Notes
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the importance of accountability in a company. A founder should be able to know how to instill accountability in their employees. The two main components to get accountability are ownership and consequences - having these things can make a huge difference in a company’s overall success.
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Resources:
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:09 Nobody else wants to be accountable
- 02:01 Founders always have the higher stakes
- 04:36 The challenge founders face is to get everyone accountable
- 06:53 Consequences affect accountability
- 09:31 Not being accountable does not mean safety
- 11:25 What happens to a company with no accountability
- 14:45 Two components to get accountability
- 18:18 Owning the outcome
- 19:46 Effects of reward and recognition
- 23:28 Visibility in a company
- 26:15 Changing up plans where everyone can adjust
- 28:55 When founders don’t understand the importance of their accountability
- 31:05 Excuses are the most powerful solvent that dissolves accountability
What is Startup Therapy?
The "No BS" version of how startups are really built, taught by actual startup Founders who have lived through all of it. Hosts Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan talk candidly about the intense struggles Founders face both personally and professionally as they try to turn their idea into something that will change the world.