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When performance accountability is important—and when is it not?—a good place to start is with open and honest conversation about mutual purpose and mutual expectations.
What does great performance “look like” to you? What does it “look like” to the person to whom you’re delegating? What are your mutual expectations on deliverables, timelines, budgets, and all the other parameters of the task? Where, when, and how will the accountability sessions occur?
Consistently effective managers and leaders find that it helps to be explicit about what kind of performance they stand for and what kind of performance they will not stand for. And they are accountable for holding others accountable.
As my friend Stephen Covey said, accountability breeds response-ability.
Above: Customers stand beneath an Apple logo at the Apple store in Grand Central station in New York City, July 21, 2015.
(By Devidutta Tripathy, Reuters) — Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a key supplier to Apple, on Saturday signed a pact with India’s Maharashtra state to invest $5 billion over five years on a new electronics manufacturing facility.
The announcement was made by Foxconn founder Terry Gou and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after the signing of an accord in the state capital Mumbai.
The Foxconn announcement will bolster Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign, which aims to turn Asia’s third-largest economy into a manufacturing powerhouse.
Gou said Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd which also counts Blackberry, Xiaomi [XTC.UL] and Amazon as clients, was looking for local partners for the facility in the western Indian state.
He declined to say if the Taiwan-based company would make mobile phones at the facility.
On Tuesday, Gou said in New Delhi that he was looking at setting up manufacturing units in various Indian states and possible partnerships in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market.
He had said in May that Foxconn was aiming to develop 10-12 facilities in India, including factories and data centers, by 2020. Local businessmen are hoping that as Foxconn and other companies invest in the country, suppliers will follow.
Chief minister Fadnavis said the Foxconn plant would generate employment for about 50,000 people.
Foxconn employs about 1.3 million people during peak production times, making it one of the largest private employers in the world. But it has had to improve labor conditions following a series of suicides in 2010-2011, mostly at its Shenzhen manufacturing operation.
The company on Friday confirmed the death of an employee at its Zhengzhou plant in China, which a labor group said was suicide.
Downvalley residents enjoy a rare full orchestra performance when the National Repretory Orchestra performed at the Lundgren Theater last summer. The orchestra is returning to Gypsum this Thursday, July 12.
Details: The performance is free. Bring a picnic, blanket or lawn chair to enjoy the show.
Gypsum really can be a classy-cal place.
While the downvalley community is definitely better known for the country music concerts that highlight the annual Gypsum Daze event, last summer the town offered a definite change of place when Bravo! Vail brought the National Repertory Orchestra to the Lundgren Theater for a special one-night performance. The orchestra is returning to Gypsum on Thursday, July 12.
“Last year was just a lot of fun. The National Repertory Orchestra really wanted to come back and they loved playing at the Lundgren Theater,” said Krista DeHerrera, Gypsum special events coordinator.
She noted the event is free to the public. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring picnic baskets, blankets and lawn chairs for an evening of classical music for the whole family.
The performance is actually titled “The Listener” and it features a collaboration between the orchestra and Magic Circle Mime. DeHerrera noted Magic Circle Mime Company is regarded as a premier family attraction. She said the company’s highly acclaimed performances unite the concert orchestra with visual theater, are consistently praised for imaginative and innovative content.
Speaking of imaginative content, local kids will have an opportunity to imagine themselves as musicians prior to the concert. A special pre-concert instrument petting zoo is planned at 5 p.m. at the Lundgren Theater. Local music students will assist as kids have the opportunity to test out various instruments that make up an orchestra.
To learn more about the National Repertory Orchestra or the Bravo! Vail Summer Series, visit http://www.bravovail.org.
Former NBA player Lamar Odom pleaded no contest Monday to a drunken driving charge and accepted a sentence of three years’ probation and three months of alcohol abuse treatment.
In a deal with prosecutors, Odom entered the plea to one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence and was also ordered to pay $1,814 in fines and penalties, Los Angeles city attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan said. Odom had faced a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
The status of his suspended driver’s license will be determined at a separate hearing in front of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Odom’s attorney, Richard Hutton, appeared in court to enter the plea for him. A phone message left with Hutton was not immediately returned.
The 34-year-old power forward and husband of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian is currently out of the NBA, going unsigned as a free-agent after averaging a career-low 4 points and 5.9 rebounds last season with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The sentence dealt another blow to Odom’s attempts to return to the NBA and calls into question his future career.
He met with Clippers coach Doc Rivers last month, but Rivers said he was simply expressing an interest in Odom, and "it really didn’t go much further than that."
Odom was arrested Aug. 30 after his Mercedes-Benz SUV was spotted weaving on a freeway in the Studio City section of Los Angeles. The California Highway Patrol said the vehicle was observed traveling in a "serpentine manner."
He has remained mostly silent since his arrest. He tweeted in September he had been "Seeing the snakes," and credited the Kardashian family for being "the ONLY ones that have been here consistently 4 me during this dark time. Only person 2 blame is myself."
The Lok Janshakti Party chief and NDA member has already taken up the matter with human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar, ET confirmed.
Besides Paswan, another NDA member Apna Dal, which is led by Anupriya Patel, also demanded on Thursday that the government bring an ordinance to correct the situation.
Days after the Supreme Court dismissed the Centre’s petition and upheld a controversial Allahabad High Court judgment that changedthe formula for effecting faculty reservations for SC/STs across universities, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan has red-flagged the issue.
Paswan, a Dalit leader from Bihar told ET that the government is seriously considering the issue in light of the court order. “On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld the Allahabad High Court judgment and I had about an hour-long discussion with Javdekarji on it. The government is serious on the issue. The government had filed the Special Leave Petition (SLP in the Supreme Court. We could not bring an ordinance till the time the SLP was decided. Now the decision has come. We are looking into the matter,” said Paswan. The court verdict has in fact created considerable disquiet in the government. The order’s implementation is expected to bring down SC/ST representation in the university faculty considerably and is already causing ripples in both academic and political circles.
A meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday morning to take stock of the situation and weigh all options before the government. There is also increasing political pressure on the issue. Besides Paswan, another NDA member Apna Dal, which is led by Anupriya Patel, also demanded on Thursday that the government bring an ordinance to correct the situation.
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party’s Upendra Kushwaha has termed the SC order “unfortunate” and demanded that a Bill to reverse it be tabled on the very first day of the upcoming Parliament session.
The 27-year-old Revis was injured in the third quarter of the Jets' 23-20 overtime victory at Miami on Sunday, falling awkwardly and grabbing his knee even before he hit the grass. It was a non-contact injury.
The Matthew Stafford health watch began anew, an unpleasantly familiar move for the Detroit Lions. Stafford left late in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 44-41 overtime loss at Tennessee with a strained muscle in his right leg, and although Shaun Hill played well in a relief role, the last thing the Lions want is a return to the days when their franchise quarterback wasn't able to stay healthy. Stafford was banged up as a rookie in 2009 and played only 10 games, and he was limited to three the following season because of problems with his throwing shoulder.
"We'll see how he progresses through this week," Coach Jim Schwartz said. "Friday we'll make a determination what that availability is — same as every team does."
Fred Jackson to the rescue? The Buffalo Bills running back wasn't counting himself out on Monday, a day after C.J. Spiller went down with a left shoulder injury that's expected to keep him out for at least a week. Calling himself ahead of schedule in returning from a sprained right knee, Jackson gave himself a "70 to 75 percent chance" of playing on Sunday, when the Bills host New England.
"My mindset is to go. I'm playing. That is how I'm approaching it," Jackson said. "I think I've got a really good shot. I like my chances."
Coach Chan Gailey said tests taken on Monday showed the injury to Spiller wasn't as bad as initially feared. Gailey wasn't prepared to entirely rule out Spiller from playing Sunday against New England, but acknowledged the player has a better shot at playing the following weekend at San Francisco.
■ Tests performed on Reggie Bush's left knee showed no serious injury Monday, meaning the Dolphins might have their top offensive player available this weekend when they travel to face unbeaten Arizona. Bush has 302 rushing yards already this season.
■ Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey was released from the hospital a day after being knocked out by a helmet-to-helmet hit and is expected to make a full recovery. Heyward-Bey suffered a concussion and a strained neck on the scary hit from Pittsburgh safety Ryan Mundy that stopped the game Sunday for more than 10 minutes as Heyward-Bey had to regain consciousness before being carted off the field and taken to the hospital.
One week, it's interceptions. The next week, it's incompletions. In a 31-25 loss to Houston, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning threw 26 incompletions, the highest number of misconnections he's made in a single game over his 15-year career.
The Associated Press reviewed all 26 incompletions. Seven were overthrown, four were underthrown, four were dropped by Broncos receivers and four were dropped by Houston defenders. Three of the incompletions were grounded to stop the clock or avoid a sack, two were deflected by defenders in coverage and one was batted down at the line. The other one was an on-target pass to receiver Demaryius Thomas, who couldn't get his second foot down in the back of the end zone.
A wealthy hedge-fund manager won approval Monday for his plan to bring professional men's basketball and hockey back to Seattle, with initially skeptical city council members agreeing to put up $200 million for a new arena after he promised to personally guarantee the city's debt. Council members voted 6-2 to approve Chris Hansen's plan for a $490 million arena near the Seahawks and Mariners stadiums south of downtown.
Seattle hasn't had an NBA team since 2008, when the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder, devastating their fans here. It's been quite a bit longer since Seattle had major-league hockey: The Metropolitans, who won the Stanley Cup in 1917, disbanded in 1924.
Casie Cathrea, Karen Chung and Esther Lee each won two team matches Monday in the Junior Ryder Cup to help the United States take a 61/2-41/2 lead over Europe in Olympia Fields, Ill. The two-day event will conclude Tuesday with 12 singles matches. The United States won in 2008 and 2010 to square the series 3-3-1.
"We lost a few holes in a row a few times today but we didn't get down and kept each other up all day," the 16-year-old Cathrea said after the morning match. "We played well as a team and it feels great to get a point for the United States."
"I wish there was a way I could say I wasn't feeling good, or I'm pressing or anything like that. It's not that. That would be the easy way to really get out of it, but bottom line is, you've got to get it fixed. It's unacceptable."
Pittsburgh, PA – Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller will need surgery to repair an anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament injury, the team announced Monday.
Miller also possibly injured his posterior cruciate ligament in Sunday's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, which eliminated the Steelers from playoff contention.
Additionally, running back Baron Batch suffered a fractured arm and has been placed on injured reserve.
That name is itself interesting, as the Wii successor will finally have the power to be able to output high-definition video–1080p content–but it's still not expected to have a physical way to read HD content like Blu-ray discs.
The 1080p compatibility will be partially thanks to the custom-built tri-core IBM PowerPC chipset that'll serve as the Wii 2's brains. It's going to be the same kind of setup that you'll find on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. Only, Nintendo will allegedly up the clock speeds to beat out the three 64-bit, 3.2-Ghz cores of Microsoft's competing device, among other enhancements.
For those of you who weren’t able to get into the Preview Program, you can now rest assured that the latest Xbox 360 features, including Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and Zune Marketplace with instant on 1080p streaming, will be arriving on all Xbox 360 consoles on November 17th. Yup, that’s just five days away, which isn’t that bad at all. To celebrate the launch of the new dashboard, all Xbox Live Gold features will be available to Xbox Live Silver members from November 20-23, allowing Silver members to sample Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and online multiplayer. Oh, what’s that? You didn’t know that only Xbox Live Gold members were able to use the new social networking aspects of the dashboard? Yeah, major fail, we agree.
We previewed the dashboard in a recent episode of Bleeding Edge TV, which you can check out at the top.
We just got word from our friends at Xbox LIVE that we’ll be getting the new Fall 2009 Dashboard Update on Monday, which means we’ll be bringing you a preview and walkthrough of all the upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard features, including Twitter, Facebook, Zune instant-on 1080p movies, Last.fm, and more. For a look at everything we’ll be bringing you on Monday, hit the jump. Now go enjoy your weekend!
Along with today’s universal price cut on Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft has added another nice little treat to the mix: a shiny HDMI port on all new premium systems. For many gamers, the promise of 1080p support made the Xbox 360 Elite a very tempting option for awhile, but now you don’t need to break the bank if you’re looking for the best video but don’t need an extra 100GB of hard disk space. These units should be showing up at retailers any day now, so keep your eyes peeled if you’re looking to grab a cheap(er) 360 with the best video you can possibly get…a bargain at $349.99. Systems with HDMI will now sport a nifty HDMI logo right on the box, so you shouldn’t have to tear open 10 boxes to find yourself one. No word yet on whether Microsoft has also been generous enough to include an HDMI cable with the new systems, but we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we have more info.
After Sega bragged about bringing true 1080P to the Xbox 360 for the first time, EA stepped up today to say that they would actually be the first to have a 1080P native title. Representatives from EA talked to Gamasutra, and they noted that the upcoming February release of NBA Street Homecourt would support the full 1080P resolution on the Xbox 360 at 30 frames per second and would beat Virtua Tennis 3 to market by a month. Perhaps during the two weeks before Street is released, someone else will step up and steal the 1080P crown yet again.
Sega updated gamers on Virtua Tennis 3 today, according to a report on Gamasutra. While the game was previously shown running at 1080P on the Playstation 3, it now appears that the Xbox 360 version will be the first game for that platform to run at full 1080P resolution. If that weren’t enough to take the shine off of the Playstation 3 version, Sega also promises exclusive online support for the Xbox 360 version as well. In trade, Playstation 3 owners get support for SIXAXIS tilt support. Still, the dual-platform release may be more interesting than just for the feature differentiation; the Playstation 3 version is being developed by Sega’s AM3 division, while the Xbox 360 version has been outsourced to Sumo Digital.
Gallery: MotorStorm for the PS3 Will / Won’t Run at 1080p 60fps?
Four Americans were killed and 17 people, 16 of them American, were wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a labourer blew himself up at a Nato airbase in Afghanistan on Saturday.
In a statement, US defense secretary Ash Carter said: “I am deeply saddened to learn that an explosion early this morning at Bagram airfield in Afghanistan has resulted in US casualties. An apparent suicide bomber has taken the lives of two US service members and two US contractors working on the base.
Before Saturday, seven US service members had been killed by hostile action in Afghanistan in 2016. The Bagram attack was the most deadly in the country since 21 December 2015, when six service members were killed in a blast at the same airfield. According to the website icasualties.org, the US military has suffered 2,391 casualties in Afghanistan since 2001.
Those killed and wounded in Saturday’s attack were not immediately named.
Carter said: “I want to express my sincere condolences to the families of the fallen, and I want to reassure the loved ones of those injured that they are getting the best possible care. Force protection is always a top priority for us in Afghanistan, and we will investigate this tragedy to determine any steps we can take to improve it.
The attacker was reportedly standing in a queue with labourers at Bagram airfield, north of Kabul, when he detonated the explosives.
Waheed Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Parwan provincial governor, said the bomber detonated a suicide vest after entering the heavily protected site, the largest US base in the country.
The attack underlines the foreign policy challenge that will face US president-elect Donald Trump when he takes office in January. It followed a suicide attack on the German consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Thursday night, which killed four people and wounded more than 100. That attack was in retaliation for airstrikes near the northern city of Kunduz last week that killed more than 30 civilians.
Barack Obama had hoped to have all US forces out of Afghanistan by the end of his term, but was forced to abandon that aim as Afghan forces struggled to contain the Taliban insurgency.
Under current plans, 8,400 US troops will remain as part of the Nato-led operation and a separate US counter-terrorism mission after Obama decided to slow down a planned reduction of the force, leaving it to his successor to decide future strategy.
The Taliban’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Saturday’s attack, which had been planned for four months, had caused heavy casualties, killing 23 Americans and wounding 44. The movement often exaggerates the number of casualties its operations cause.
Nottinghamshire Police say they have arrested a 30-year-old man after an incident in the city-centre on Sunday afternoon.
The man remains in police custody and is being questioned on suspicion of GBH.
It follows reports of a fight near to fairground rides next to the Nottingham 'Beach' on Sunday afternoon. It happened in full view of parents and children who were at the city-centre attraction.
A man was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre with stab wounds, but has now been discharged.
Part of the area was cordoned off for a time by police but is now open again to the public.
Dr. Mary Hurley says, “People are looking for a way to turn back the clock without having to go under the knife."
During a walk with a new neighbor earlier this year, Kathy Harvey mentioned that she’ll be 59 this month.
It’s also the products that her dermatologist, Dr. Mary Hurley, is using. Harvey is a big believer in temporary dermal fillers, which are designed to replace lost volume and soften lines in the face. Harvey says she’s particularly fond of the filler Sculptra, which has helped her skin regrow its own collagen.
A typical treatment, which may cost from $500 to $1,500, is less expensive and invasive than plastic surgery.
“People are looking for a way to turn back the clock without having to go under the knife,” Hurley says. “Fillers have increased in popularity over the years because they offer nonsurgical rejuvenation.
Although swelling and bruising may occur after injections, the procedures are widely considered to be safe, says Dr. Jeffrey Kenkel, professor and vice chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Juvéderm is designed to smooth away wrinkles around the mouth and nose, with the aid of hyaluronic acid as the active ingredient.
Restylane is used to treat facial wrinkles and folds around the mouth, but it’s also the first and only FDA-approved dermal filler for lip enhancement in patients who are at least 21 years old.
Sculptra is injected more deeply into the skin and is designed to treat hollow cheeks and the loss of facial fat. “It relies on the body’s response, so it takes more time to see results,” Kenkel says.
Radiesse is made of calcium hydroxyl to treat deeper lines such as the ones around the mouth. Results are immediate with this filler as well, and they can last up to a year.
Darla Atlas is a Fort Worth freelance writer.
This week, music mogul Birdman penned what was vaguely alluded to as quite the shiny deal with Apple Music.
Today (August 19), details behind the curious boss move have been announced, confirming that the music-streaming service will exclusively play host to a new documentary detailing the legacy and story of Cash Money Records.
The documentary, aptly titled The Cash Money Story: Before Anythang, glimpses into the early days of the record label and features interviews from family members, friends and people close to the empire's two founders, Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams. The two brothers also share executive producing credits, while Baby himself will take charge and narrate the feature.
Considering the seemingly never-ending beef between Birdman and Cash Money’s biggest player, Lil Wayne, one can’t help but wonder how the rapper will be portrayed in the record label’s come-up story. Safe to say Weezy probably isn’t going to cosign this.
The documentary is slated for a fall release but an exact date has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer via Apple Music below.
February snow storm: The first of many hits Chicago, moves on to the East Coast.

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