The partners, who will become directors, CEOs, CFOs and many other “C-level” members of the company, are (or think they are) visionaries with an ideal. For them, more than making money, having a business involves making a dream come true.
You must know someone like this, who is so passionate about their business that, when talking about it, it seems like they are talking about a child or a great love.
Over time, the company grows Phone Number List and new professionals are added. With each round of new hires, passion diminishes and the relationship between people migrates from “partner/partner” to “boss/employee”.
The cliché figure in this relationship is the apathetic employee, who hates his boss and sees his work as just a way to pay the bills at the end of the month. Although this extreme is not the rule, the opposite is even rarer.
Obviously, not everyone can be an owner. But the ownership attitude is something that can be achieved – and desired – by all professionals in a company that aims for success. Therefore, if you undertake or manage, it is time to understand the difference between accountability and ownership.
Pressing the SAP button: Accountability x Ownership
If we try to translate these two terms into English, the closest we would get would be “responsibility” and “sense of ownership”. Your goal as a manager, entrepreneur or any other type of leader should be to take your employees from a position of responsibility to a position of ownership.
Responsibility is something that creates pressure and anxiety in employees, as with it comes demands, rules and hierarchies. They are something that the superior unilaterally determines to the subordinate, like a burden.
Employees who only consider their responsibilities often work to avoid punishment rather than for a positive outcome. This tendency can even lead them to hide bad data or ignore crises.