17 Tactics to Avoid Accountablility

Timisms of the Day: 17 TACTICS TO AVIOD ACCOUNTABILITY

1. You will continually point out other’s inadequacies.
2. Building yourself up by putting others down.
3. Telling others what they want to hear and not what is the truth.
4. Lying – by omission, distorting the truth and by disclosing only what benefits him/her.
5. Vagueness – “I’ll think about it.”; “Maybe”
6. Diverts attention away from self. Introduces irrelevant material. Invokes racial issues.
7. Attempting to confuse others
8. Minimizes the situation. “I just got into a little trouble.”
9. Agree or say “yes” without really meaning it.
10. Silence
11. Paying attention only to what suits YOU.
12. Make a big scene about a minor point.
13. Putting off doing something by saying “I forgot.”
14. Putting others on the defensive. The tactics: such as degrading, quibbling over words, trying to embarrass, using anger as a weapon.
15. Total inattention.
16. Accusing others of a misunderstanding.
17. Claiming that you have changed because you did it right once.** When the renegade thinker discovers that effort, competence, and reliability are usually rewarded, they will accomplish worthwhile things without deception or intimidation.