Skip to content
Looking for a memorable and useful gift for your employees, book club, or clients? Browse some of the discounted, signed, or otherwise customized books we currently have available to order.
  • BUY BOOKS
    • BY GENRE
      • Biography & Autobiography
      • Business
      • Children's
      • Communication
      • Cookbooks
      • Creativity
      • Diversity and Inclusion
      • Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Feminist
      • Fiction
      • Health/Fitness
      • History
      • Human Rights
      • Leadership
      • Mental Health/Stress Management
      • Motivational
      • Philosophy
      • Planners & Journals
      • Self-Help
      • Social Science
      • Tech
      • Time Management
      • Business Bestsellers
      • Nonfiction Bestsellers
    • Special Offers
    • The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
    • New Releases
    • Book Lists
    • Looking for Audiobooks?
  • ARTICLES
    • ChangeThis
    • New Releases
    • Interviews
    • Excerpts
    • Giveaways
    • Book Reviews
    • Book Lists
    • News & Opinion
  • SERVICES
    • *NEW* Custom Shipping Boxes
    • ALL SERVICES
      • Advertising & Giveaways
      • Bestseller Reporting
      • Book Customization
      • Bulk Book Pricing
      • Custom Checkout
      • Custom Shipping Boxes
      • Delivery Logistics
      • Editorial Coverage
      • Mass Book Mailing
      • Personalized Customer Service
      • Preorder Campaigns
    • For Authors
    • For Book Buyers
    • For Publicists and Agents
    • For Publishers
    • For Book Clubs
  • AWARDS
    • Submit Your Books
    • PREVIOUS YEARS
      • 2025 Business Book Awards
      • 2024 Business Book Awards
      • 2023 Business Book Awards
      • 2022 Business Book Awards
      • 2021 Business Book Awards
      • 2020 Business Book Awards
      • 2019 Business Book Awards
      • 2018 Business Book Awards
      • 2017 Business Book Awards
      • 2016 Business Book Awards
      • 2015 Business Book Awards
      • 2014 Business Book Awards
      • 2013 Business Book Awards
      • 2012 Business Book Awards
      • 2011 Business Book Awards
      • 2010 Business Book Awards
      • 2009 Business Book Awards
      • 2008 Business Book Awards
      • 2007 Business Book Awards
  • ABOUT US
  • PAST PROJECTS
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • HELP & SUPPORT
  • Log in
  • instagram Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
icon-search Search
account Log in icon-search Search icon-bag-minimalCart
  • BUY BOOKS
    • BY GENRE
      • Biography & Autobiography
      • Business
      • Children's
      • Communication
      • Cookbooks
      • Creativity
      • Diversity and Inclusion
      • Education
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Feminist
      • Fiction
      • Health/Fitness
      • History
      • Human Rights
      • Leadership
      • Mental Health/Stress Management
      • Motivational
      • Philosophy
      • Planners & Journals
      • Self-Help
      • Social Science
      • Tech
      • Time Management
    • BESTSELLERS
      • Business Bestsellers
      • Nonfiction Bestsellers
    • Special Offers
    • The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
    • New Releases
    • Book Lists
    • Looking for Audiobooks?
  • ARTICLES
    • ChangeThis
    • New Releases
    • Interviews
    • Excerpts
    • Giveaways
    • Book Reviews
    • Book Lists
    • News & Opinion
  • SERVICES
    • *NEW* Custom Shipping Boxes
    • ALL SERVICES
      • Advertising & Giveaways
      • Bestseller Reporting
      • Book Customization
      • Bulk Book Pricing
      • Custom Checkout
      • Custom Shipping Boxes
      • Delivery Logistics
      • Editorial Coverage
      • Mass Book Mailing
      • Personalized Customer Service
      • Preorder Campaigns
    • For Authors
    • For Book Buyers
    • For Publicists and Agents
    • For Publishers
    • For Book Clubs
  • AWARDS
    • Submit Your Books
    • PREVIOUS YEARS
      • 2025 Business Book Awards
      • 2024 Business Book Awards
      • 2023 Business Book Awards
      • 2022 Business Book Awards
      • 2021 Business Book Awards
      • 2020 Business Book Awards
      • 2019 Business Book Awards
      • 2018 Business Book Awards
      • 2017 Business Book Awards
      • 2016 Business Book Awards
      • 2015 Business Book Awards
      • 2014 Business Book Awards
      • 2013 Business Book Awards
      • 2012 Business Book Awards
      • 2011 Business Book Awards
      • 2010 Business Book Awards
      • 2009 Business Book Awards
      • 2008 Business Book Awards
      • 2007 Business Book Awards
  • ABOUT US
  • PAST PROJECTS
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • HELP & SUPPORT
ChangeThis · David Maister · Nov 07, 2006

Accountability: Effective Managers Go First

by David Maister
DOWNLOAD
How far are you willing to go to facilitate change in your organization? Management expert, David Maister, says you've got to be willing to go first. And he means all the way, even to the point of resigning if your change efforts fail. Instead of saying "Charge!" to the troops, say "Follow me!".
Share Share on Facebook Pin it Pin on Pinterest

icon-left-arrow Back to ChangeThis
ChangeThis • Previous

Slow Leadership: Creating Civilized Organizations

ChangeThis • Next

The Capitalist Manifesto: Managing the Rise of Citizen Investors

Other Posts You May Like

  • Attention Activism: A Rallying Cry to Fight the Commodification of Human Attention

    Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power, and individual willpower and isolated efforts to resist are not enough. We need a movement of collective resistance.

    • Read More
  • An Excerpt from <i>World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy</i>

    An excerpt from World Eaters by Catherine Bracy, published by Dutton and longlisted for the 2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards in the Current Events & Public Affairs category.

    • Read More
  • The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

    Simone Stolzoff reminds us that work is only a single facet of our lives—when we nourish the other identities that reside within us, we are much better for it.

    • Read More

Featured Special Offers

Autographed copies • Discounted preorders • Book bundles • Book and product bundles • And more!

ALL IN LIMITED QUANTITIES AND EXPIRING SOON!

[30% OFF + SIGNED BOOKPLATE] How to Handle Anything by Mary Lemmer – ENDS OCTOBER 29
[35% OFF] Monarchs by Jaime Rojo – ENDS SEPTEMBER 22
[30% OFF] Manage What Matters by Rachel Pacheco – ENDS OCTOBER 6
[38% OFF] Make Work Work By Deborah Lovich – OFFER ENDS NOVEMBER 3
[35% OFF + SIGNED BOOKPLATE] Hypervigilant by Dr. Kim Sage – ENDS DECEMBER 29
[30% OFF] Level Up by Nir Halevy – ENDS OCTOBER 6
  • instagram Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn

Info

  • BUY BOOKS
  • ARTICLES
  • SERVICES
  • AWARDS
  • ABOUT US
  • PAST PROJECTS
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • HELP & SUPPORT

Sign up and save

Subscribe to get book reviews, recommendations, excerpts, special offers, and invites to author events.

Looking for a book?

  • Search
  • Request a quote
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Diners Club
  • Discover
  • Google Pay
  • Mastercard
  • Visa
© 2026 Porchlight Book Company – 1-800-236-7323 – 544 S 1st St, Milwaukee WI 53204
Privacy policy — Terms of service
Accountability: Effective Managers Go First