THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Barnes & Noble IHOP Pfizer, Inc. Motorola Nestle Purina Eli Lilly & Company Schwan Food Company ALARIS Medical Systems PING Johnson Controls, Inc. United Healthcare ADP Microsoft LensCrafters Shell Oil I.R.S. Precor, Inc. U.S. Customs BP Amoco Mutual of Omaha Guidant Tyco Healthcare Retail Group Alcoa RPD Medtronic ERS THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Partners In Leadership, Inc. Partial Client List Activity vs. Results Result: The desired and undesired outcomes of taking actions. THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Activity: Actions people take that lead to results. Doing The Job Doing The Job IS Achieving The Result THE OZ PRINCIPLE Achieving The Result © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Doing The Job vs. Achieving The Result The Concept Of Joint Accountability R A The Organizational Goals A R A THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. R The Results Pyramid TM Results Beliefs Experiences THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Actions © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. THE OZ PRINCIPLE NON SEQUITUR ©1996 Wiley Miller. Dist. by UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. THE OZ PRINCIPLE NON SEQUITUR ©1996 Wiley Miller. Dist. by UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Alignment Results Without Alignment With Alignment THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Results THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Murphy’s Law O’Reilly’s Corollary “Murphy was an optimist.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. “If anything can go wrong, it will.” How The Accident Happened... • “The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. • “Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.” How The Accident Happened... • “The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. • “An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.” How The Accident Happened... • “I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law and headed over the embankment.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. • “The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Wait & See It’s Not My Job Finger Pointing Ignore/ Deny THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Confusion/Tell Me What To Do Cover Your Tail THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 16 Best Practices Obtaining the perspectives of others Communicating openly and candidly Asking for and offering feedback Hearing the hard things to see reality Own It TM Being personally invested Learning from both successes and failures Aligning my work with desired company results Acting on the feedback that I receive Solve It TM Constantly asking, “What else can I do?” Overcoming crossfunctional boundaries Do It TM Doing the things I say I’ll do Focusing on the top priorities Staying Above The Line by not blaming others TM Creatively dealing with obstacles Taking the necessary risks THE OZ PRINCIPLE Sustaining an environment of trust © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. See ItTM “Subject to having to report, explain or justify; responsible; answerable.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dictionary’s Definition Of Accountability Two Views Of Accountability TM “Who is accountable for achieving the result?” R E S U L T The Typical Accountability Question “Who is accountable for failing to achieve the result?” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. The Oz Principle Accountability Question The Partners In Leadership Definition Of Taking Accountability A personal choice to rise above one’s circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results; to See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It. TM TM TM THE OZ PRINCIPLE TM © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. TM THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Four Kinds Of People People who make it happen! People who wonder what happened. People who never knew anything happened. THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. People who watch it happen. “Only when you assume full accountability for your thoughts, feelings, actions, and results can you direct your own destiny; otherwise, someone or something else will.” THE OZ PRINCIPLE © 1999-2006 Partners In Leadership IP, LLC. All Rights Reserved. The Oz Principle
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