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“Send people authorised to make a decision” is a management truism that seems well out of fashion.
“Send people authorised to make a decision” is a management truism that seems well out of fashion.


Here we are talking about “[[empowerment]]” not in the sense of [[yogababble]] about how we should all be actualised to [[Be the best version of yourself|be the best versions of ourselves]] — [[HR]] will be all over that, and they can have it, frankly — but in the sense of having the ''autonomy'' and ''authority'' to make pragmatic decisions on the spot to make your own organisation ''go''.  
Here we are talking about “[[empowerment]]” not in the sense of [[yogababble]] about how we should all be actualised to [[Be the best version of yourself|be the best versions of ourselves]] — [[HR]] will be all over that, and they can have it, frankly — but in the sense of having the ''[[autonomy]]'' and ''authority'' to make pragmatic decisions on the spot to make your own organisation ''go''.  


The immutable trajectory of management orthodoxy favours ''policy'' over ''judgment'', ''process'' over ''insight'', ''evidence'' over ''intuition'' — fundamentally [[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza|''substance'' over ''form'']] — and in so, doing pushes each enterprise towards ultimate ''stasis'' which will only collapse when the firm does, as a result of some [[non-linear]] chain reaction the learned authors of its [[risk taxonomy]] somehow didn’t foresee.
The immutable trajectory of management orthodoxy favours ''policy'' over ''judgment'', ''process'' over ''insight'', ''evidence'' over ''intuition'' — fundamentally [[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza|''substance'' over ''form'']] — and in so, doing pushes each enterprise towards ultimate ''stasis'' which will only collapse when the firm does, as a result of some [[non-linear]] chain reaction the learned authors of its [[risk taxonomy]] somehow didn’t foresee.