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Thought Tweet #467 Consequences are the legs that support accountability.

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Where consequences do not register, in the end there can be no accountability. Consequences take the form of rewards...either positive or negative. Consequences are the 'effect' half of 'cause & effect'. If we remove the 'effect that follows accountability' then we also remove the accountability.

Better carrots than sticks; better sticks than nothing.

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"Encouraging autonomy doesn't mean discouraging accountability." Daniel Pink ‘Drive’, (2009)