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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” —Elbert Hubbard
As a follow-up to best sellers The Oz Principle
and Journey to the Emerald City, authors Roger
Connors and Tom Smith present the third book in their accountability trilogy, How Did That Happen?
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” —Jonathan Winters
Connors and Smith are partners and founders of
Partners In Leadership, Inc., a company that specializes in accountability training and education.
“Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.” —Cyrus A. Bartol
Their book not only explains how to hold others
accountable, it also provides an array of practical
advice that can be easily remembered and applied in
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.” —Thomas Fuller
Guess Who I Am
day-to-day situations. By following a series of steps
called the “Accountability Sequence,” readers are given clear-cut techniques to help them achieve successful accountability.
The Accountability Sequence includes two essential
How Did That Happen? Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way By Roger Connors and Tom Smith
components: “The Outer Ring,” which explains how to establish expectations and positive accountability
connections; and “The Inner Ring,” which explains
how to manage unmet expectations when people fail to deliver and correct the missed results.
Not only can this book give a new perspective on the
dreaded topic of accountability, it will also help leaders
Born in Albany, Georgia, in
1947, this woman graduated from Albany High School in
1965. She was married that same year and worked as a bank teller and homemaker. In 1989, she divorced her husband.
Left with only $200 to her
name, she packed up her two sons and moved to Savannah, where she used the cooking skills she
learned from her grandmother to start her own catering business
called The Bag Lady, where she prepared fresh sandwiches and
other meals to sell to downtown businesses and doctors’ offices.
Because she suffered from anxiety and agoraphobia (the fear of
public places) after being held at
gunpoint during a bank robbery, her sons delivered the meals.
Her down-home, Southern
have more empowering conversations and offers an
cooking skills were wildly
innovation in the workplace.
outgrow her kitchen and begin
inspirational resource for developing creativity and
successful, causing her to quickly working for a local restaurant. The regional specialties she
provided became the talk of
the town and influenced her to
open her own restaurant, which
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received many accolades from critics and media alike.
She then wrote several
cookbooks, appeared on QVC
and The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote them, and later got her
own cooking shows, for which she has won Daytime Emmy Awards. This successful chef,
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