Distributed authority that holds: roles, consent, the advice process, and conflict that resolves.
How to Name a Tension
Something is off. You have felt it for a fortnight. You cannot say what it is without sounding like you are complaining about a person, so you say…
The Advice Process
You have probably been told your organization is non-hierarchical, and then watched a decision sit for three weeks because nobody was sure they were…
Open Books, and the Number Everyone Should Know
Ask the people in your organization how many months of runway you have. If more than half cannot answer within a factor of two, your financial risk…
The Handover That Does Not Lose Anything
Work changes hands constantly: between people, between teams, into and out of leave, at the end of a project, when somebody joins and when somebody…
Decision Records: How to Stop Re-deciding Things
Count the meetings last quarter where you discussed something you had already settled. Not revisited deliberately. Discussed again because nobody…