No More Barriers

Apple Computer is a company that exemplifies taking accountability for removing barriers—hence the company’s amazing market value. Billions of apps have been downloaded from Apple’s revolutionary App Store by iPhone, iPad, and iPod users worldwide. How do they keep it going? Apple vigilantly removes barriers for developers, users, and their own employees everyday. Arguably, the App Store experience, like the Apple Store experience, is unlike anything else offered by competitors.

To vigilantly eliminate barriers to success, Apple is constantly developing and improving tools such as iOS SDK, which allows millions of independent app developers to immediately begin developing applications for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Apple’s Dev Center also provides a wealth of resources, such as videos, sample code, technical documentation, Apple Developer Forums, and more, to facilitate and accelerate app development. There are thousands of inspiring App Developer testimonials online that tell the story. Removing barriers for customers, independent developers, employees, and all the other stakeholders is crucial to sustaining high levels of performance and success at Apple. Today, iPhone, iPad, and iPod customers in more than 80 countries worldwide can choose from an incredible range of apps in over 20 categories, including entertainment, business, medical, news, sports, health, reference and travel.

Unfortunately, most people in organizations regularly encounter barriers that are difficult to overcome or eliminate. Why? The reason is that most people and organizations fail to take accountability for removing such barriers. Whenever your customers, employees, partners, suppliers, or other stakeholders experience frustration, anger, and disengagement because of organizational barriers—it is a clear sign that some of your organization’s rules, policies, procedures, processes, or systems have become hindrances rather than facilitators for achieving your organization’s desired results. Taking accountability for removing any and all barriers that impede performance, creativity, communication, problem solving, and the achievement of key results is crucial to success in today’s business environment.

To learn more about how to take greater accountability for removing barriers in your organization, we invite you to join the Accountability Community at www.partnersinleadership.com, where you can review actual client case studies.

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