I may be misunderstanding as I&#x27;m not familiar with your sources, but I’m not sure how you can have an effective team without accountability?  If you are responsible for delivering something and you don’t and there’s never any ramification (accountability) things degenerate.  I’ve seen this more than I’d like where a manager’s team is failing and he or she constantly blames subordinates and other teams for the lack of results, always ready to pull something out of the excuse matrix.  When senior leaders fail to hold these managers accountable, the process continues, new mistakes, missed targets, and new scape goats found.  Responsibility without accountability seems like the life of a Roman Emperor and I’ve never seen it work well with teams or leaders.