Extreme Ownership and Turn the Ship Around! are the two most cited books on distributed authority in organisational settings, and they are superficially contradictory. One argues that a leader must own everything — total responsibility,…
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“I Intend To”: Three Words That Move Authority
The mechanism sounds minor: change “request permission to do X” to “I intend to do X.” The person receiving the communication can still stop it — nothing prevents a senior officer from saying no. The…
Move Authority to the Information
There is a standard model for how authority and information are supposed to interact in an organisation. The people at the top have the authority to make decisions. The people at the bottom have the…