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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by Wintereise on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:50AM (#21511833)
Anecdotal, but I've never seen democracy work out well for architecture level decision making.

If there's someone with a proven track record of making sound decisions at the required level, often the team benefits from just following their lead.

Obviously, this can't be another case of the 4x engineer making everyone else 0.4x engineers. Fairly situational indeed.

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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by JohnBooty on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:37AM (#21513942)
I used the word "democracy" myself, but I probably should have used a different word.

I would agree that it certainly shouldn't be a "one person, one vote" style democracy that makes everybody exactly equal regardless of talent, dedication, experience, domain knowledge, etc!

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