Take Accountability to Earn Equity

When you're negotiating with other people, ultimately if someone else is making a decision about how to compensate you, that decision will be based on how replaceable you are

In modern society, the downside risk is not that large....so there's not really that much to fear in terms of failure. People should be taking on a lot more accountability than they actually are.

I think of accountability as reputational skin in the game

Equity holders take on greater risk, but in exchange they get nearly unlimited upside

Taking accountability for your actions is the same as taking an equity position in all of your work

These days, accountability risk happens more around integrity than it does around economic failure