October 15, 2025
13 min 21 s

Shifting Relationships: Responsibility, Self Accountability and Accountability in Practice

October 15, 2025
13 min 21 s

Shifting Relationships: Responsibility, Self Accountability and Accountability in Practice

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Show Notes

In this episode, Ryan takes last week’s big ideas—responsibility, self-accountability, and accountability—and puts them to work in real life. Because it’s one thing to define them. It’s another to live them on a Tuesday morning when your shift is short-staffed, someone’s late, and the fryer’s down.

He breaks down how each plays out on the frontline:

  • Responsibility is what you’re for, t’s clarity of ownership and outcomes.
  • Self-accountability is what you’re to yourself, owning your gaps before someone else has to.
  • Accountability is what you’re with others, the shared follow-through that keeps teams healthy and honest.

Ryan also riffs on Dan Davies idea of The Unaccountability Machine, a system that quietly runs on blame, excuses, confusion, and waiting. He shows how to shut it down by turning blame into curiosity, excuses into ownership, confusion into clarity, and waiting into action.

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