Accountability

February 2026

• Feb 24, 2026ConceptsCorporate Governance Explained for Non-ExpertsGovernance is the architecture of accountability: who decides, who oversees, and how power gets checked. The article walks through board duties, fiduciary duty, audit, pay design and the shareholder versus stakeholder debate, with Theranos, Boeing and Carillion as failure cases. Bebchuk, Cohen and Ferrell's Entrenchment Index study of over 1,800 firms found each one-point rise associated with roughly 6 to 7 percent lower Tobin's Q.21 MIN27.9k
• Feb 20, 2026ConceptsResponsibility vs Accountability ExplainedResponsibility is the duty to do the work and can be split across many people; accountability is answerability for the result and stays with one person, which is why a RACI matrix permits multiple Rs but only one A. The page explains why accountability without authority or consequences is performative, and contrasts Amazon's single-threaded owner model with the failures at Challenger, Wells Fargo, and Grenfell Tower.21 MIN29.0k

July 2023

• Jul 9, 2023CultureAn Evidence-Based Look at Cancel CultureAn evidence-based look at how cancel culture works and why it fails as accountability. John Braithwaite distinguished stigmatizing shaming, which labels a person as fundamentally bad and excludes them, from reintegrative shaming, which condemns the act but keeps community membership and offers a route back. He found the stigmatizing form increases exclusion and reoffending. Justine Sacco had 170 Twitter followers when a single post cost her her career mid-flight.19 MIN11.9k

October 2022

• Oct 1, 2022ConceptsWhat Is Regulatory Capture: When Regulators Serve IndustryBy 2018 Boeing employees were performing roughly 96 percent of the certification work on the 737 MAX, according to the Department of Transportation Inspector General. After crashes that killed 346 people, the House Transportation Committee concluded in September 2020 that FAA oversight had been grossly insufficient. George Stigler's 1971 theory explains the pattern: concentrated industry interests outcompete a diffuse public, though capture is a tendency, not a certainty.18 MIN13.1k