Operating Principle1 book · 1 highlight

Accountability Over Advisory Layers

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Evidence

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin — book cover

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

Gretchen Rubin · 1 highlights

  1. “Churchill recognized the value of accountability and opposed efforts to add layers of advisers who lacked actual responsibility. “Lots of people can make good plans for winning the war if they have not got to carry them out,” Churchill pointedly noted when he addressed a Joint Session of Congress in 1943. “I dare say if I had not been in a responsible position I should have made a lot of excellent plans.””

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