How to Build Accountability

It’s all in the process

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503 – 1516 (Wikipedia - public domain)

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You’ve heard (or read) that Emerson quote before, no?

It’s typically uttered when someone doesn’t like following a certain way of doing things — what I call the Disruptor’s Credo — the perfect retort for the inevitable Defense Against the Dark Arts incantation “We’ve always done it that way.”

It’s not the consistency that’s questionable, though; it’s the foolishness. Mindless repetition without meaning or purpose? That’s the stuff of automatons.

Leonardo da Vinci wouldn’t have created a masterpiece had he followed what other artists had done or used a paint-by-numbers canvas. He created a new process and painted on poplar wood.

Process matters.