No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

Re:No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a... by veddox on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:06PM (#20159041)

> Suddenly everything becomes easy and self organized.

Unfortunately not. A technocracy works great works great when choices are straight-forward, but one of the great responsibilities of leadership is taking decisions when things are anything but.

A good leader is not one who always knows the right answer, but one who knows how to figure out a good enough answer more often than not. And who does so under confusing circumstances, competing interests, and intense time pressure.

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Re:No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a... by hrktb on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:24PM (#20159674)

I am not sure finding acceptable answers in confusing and complex situations needs to be the role of a leader.

For instance in some orgs being a system architect has no hierarchical implications. People who are recognised to be good at designing systems get the title, take decisions when no clear consensus is reached, and can still be overruled when other experts veto their decisions (it then becomes a matter of which expert has precedence. E.g. legal wins over anything else)

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Re:No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a... by simonask on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:19AM (#20164890)

And far more often than we like to admit, making a decision is more important than making the best decision.

And when wrong decisions are being made too often, formal structure helps to hold leaders accountable for their decisions.

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