Decision Rights - Who Decides What

Your team keeps asking for approval on things they should just do. You keep making decisions people assume you have already made. Projects stall because no one is clear who has authority to move forward.

This is the decision rights trap. Not bad decision-making—unclear decision authority. When no one knows who should decide what, everything either waits for you or happens without the right oversight.

Most founders think the problem is trust or capability. But the real problem is that you have never actually mapped who owns which decisions. You are all guessing. And that guessing is slowing everything down.

In this episode, you will learn the four levels of decision authority, how to map decision rights across your business, and how to teach people to actually use their authority.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Decision Rights Trap
• The Four Levels of Decision Authority
• How to Map Decision Rights
• Teaching People to Use Their Authority
• Common Decision Rights Mistakes

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Decision confusion creates more bottlenecks than bad decisions
• Four levels: Decide and Act, Decide and Inform, Recommend and Decide, Inform Only
• Map decision rights by risk and reversibility, not seniority
• Authority without accountability does not work; accountability without authority does not work
• Teach people to use their authority by reinforcing action, not second-guessing

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