Move the information to the authority considered harmful
October 3, 2016
I’m a big fan of David Marquet and his Turn the Ship around book that shows on excellent form of leadership but also challenge the way organizations are viewed and managed.
My favourite quote is a simple one:
Move the authority to the information
I like it so much that I’ve already 2 years ago wrote a blog post about that idea, outlining why this is a good thing and how we can save a lot of effort and time in moving the information back and forth.
The other week I realized that there’s other, more subtle and viscous wastes in continuing to move the information to the authority (as we do now). In this post I will describe what that is and how to avoid it.