{"id":2769,"date":"2012-05-07T01:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:45:21","slug":"on-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2012\/05\/07\/on-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"On Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever I worked I always went above and beyond. Its just how I&#8217;m wired. My first manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/mark-reese\/48\/910\/818\">Mark<\/a>, said that I cared too much. He was quite right at the time as when I was there I sweated the small stuff. However, I really honestly cared about providing the best possible service, even at McDonald&#8217;s. It is also not uncommon for me to essentially create another position from my above and beyond efforts at my various employers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Given this pattern I figured starting a company would be easy. (Okay, not easy, but something that I could do. Anyone who tells you starting your own company is easy hasn&#8217;t done it.)<\/p>\n<p>I realized that in my startup structure, I had failed to identify one key ingredient in my previous successes: Being accountable to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>While going above and beyond at previous positions wasn&#8217;t literally in my job description, once I had made a commitment to do a given task (be it to a customer, coworker, or vendor) I would get it done. This isn&#8217;t to say that at times I struggled with those tasks or procrastinated on them, (Oh I procrastinated, trust me, I did.) but the power of having made a commitment to someone and having that accountability to push me is extremely powerful.<\/p>\n<p>When I go after starting a company again the first task will be to find a co-founder. I was having a conversation with another entrepreneur, and he said he didn&#8217;t understand how solo entrepreneurship worked; sometimes he needed the kick in the ass and motivation that another person can give. I found that incredibly gratifying have my struggles as a solo entrepreneur validated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever I worked I always went above and beyond. Its just how I&#8217;m wired. My first manager, Mark, said that I cared too much. He was quite right at the time as when I was there I sweated the small stuff. However, I really honestly cared about providing the best possible service, even at McDonald&#8217;s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,56,62],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-one-entry-a-day-for-a-week","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}