Single leader decision-making now obsolete
Stumble It!The Madness of Individuals. The author contrasts the complexity of the organisations we inhabit today with with the groups our Stone Age forebears lived in a hundred thousand years ago.
He concludes that we have now outgrown the 'instinctive faith in hierarchical leadership which is baked in our genes' as the dominant organisational decision-making model.
This resonates with the self-managed bioteaming approach to organisational teams
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Team member responsibility problems
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