Leadership

How to coordinate prioritization in decentralized organizations?

In a centralized organization, coordination of prioritization should be easy. A common manager can resolve a prioritization dispute. It’s working better on paper; we all know how reality is looking like. In decentralized organizations, there isn’t a central authority that can set priorities. How decentralized organizations can handle the coordination of priorities?

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The longer the duration between cause and results, the harder for our brain to connect those dots

As more and more time elapsed between the result that we see now and the cause that happened in the past, the harder is to connect the real cause to the current results. Instead, most of us will take the first symptom of the problem and turn it into the cause. The result of this approach is a

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The impact of unclear responsibilities and expectations on people and work

This post tries to summarize all the negative impacts of not having clear responsibilities and expectations for individuals in a team or a company. Communication70% of employees are avoiding difficult conversations with their boss, colleagues, or direct reports. Workplace health is suffering as a result (https://workbravely.com/). Unclear roles and responsibilities impact communication within a group

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Why do we need to invest to provide clarity and visibility for responsibilities and expectations?

There are two main motivations: 1) Workplace Conflict Costs $359 Billion (According to Science. Inc.com). It also causes confusion, pressure and frustration for people. 2) Roles & Responsibilities enables effective communications between the various groups, facilitating the full integration of the department and organization. Effective communication is the most common employee complaint.

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