Will Critchlow
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 6 Feb
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And I relatively recently learned that that it comes from the it literally means to give an account of.
So it literally means to explain.
And so holding somebody to account means requiring that they explain what happened.
And it comes from the kind of parliamentary systems, right?
The the system of accountability of being called in front of like a, you know, I mean a Senate committee or whatever it might be, or a parliamentary committee in the UK.
And often those those accountability sessions don't have any ability to fine you or put you in jail or, you know, any any of these kinds of things.
What they do have is the ability to force you
to answer questions in public.
And that can be just as bad.
But that that is literally what accountability means.
And I think focusing on accountability over consequences is another really powerful organizational play.
Hundred I mean, I th this is not unique to SEO, incidentally.
I I think it's another one where we all have had experiences of yeah, the most talented or the smartest person is not necessarily the most successful uh individual at different things.
You know, tenacity, reliability.
There's there's many things that can that can beat talent and IQ.
And it's shocking how high up the percentiles of all corporate employees you would you become just by being the kind of person who does what you said you were gonna do when you said you were gonna do it and communicates appropriately.
And like that that shouldn't put you in the top ten percent, but like it's uh it's probably not far off.
Yeah.
And
it's like the
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