This is an inspirational self-improvement guide from a leader in personal & organizational accountability. Every day we are faced with decisions from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed. Decisions about our families our business our futures. We are accountable for making decision big & small the cast the paths of our lives. So why do we spend so much time finger-pointing & blaming others? Mark Samuel is a master of accountability. In his book teaches us how to go from victim to accountable & how to actually do what we say we are going to do. Taking ownership of the power of personal choice regardless of the obstacles means not only walking the talk but knowing what talk you are going to walk. Faced with fear of blame fear of failure & fear of success Samuel provides inspiration & strategy for impacting the world by achieving your goals. One of Samuels main arguments in owning accountability is recognizing your current reality. He challenges readers to embrace certain tools" that can place us in the right frame of mind to accept responsibility & accomplish all of our set goals both individually & as team members including: Compassion: in taking accountability also creating solutions that consider the welfare of all parties involved & for the entire organization in general. Openness: let each member of the team regardless of rank have a chance to speak up & share their perspective in problem-solving; Sincerity: acknowledge the current reality with honesty yet without judgment. Call it what it is without criticizing at this stage. From identifying the common roadblocks to accountability to focusing on the factor of forgiveness in taking responsibility Samuel shows readers how to effectively stop the cycle of victimhood & blaming & shows us how to engage in the "accountability loop " a process of pragmatic self-examination recognition & owning & action. Using examples from the worlds of business sports parables & his own life story Samuel highly-praised accountability lessons are now available for anyone to learn from."