Peter Drucker's 1971 classic article "What we can learn from Japanese management" would prove to be an interesting read to think more thoroughly about the subje

Peter Drucker's 1971 classic article "What we can learn from Japanese management" would prove to be an interesting read to think more thoroughly about the subject: https://hbr.org/1971/03/what-we-can-learn-from-japanese-management https://hbr.org/1971/03/what-we-can-learn-from-japanese-mana... It provides a very different perspective on what it means to take (effective) decisions in a participatory manner (depending on the scale/scope of the decision), while being organizationally agile in translating those decisions into action, with a natural harmony between the two. It is interesting to compare/contrast with Amazon's obsession with "high velocity decision-making making", for example :-)