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There should be advice for the more powerful person. Maybe they don't think they need advice? After all - they made it. They are the smarter one right! But that
by quickthrower2 4y ago
There should be advice for the more powerful person. Maybe they don't think they need advice? After all - they made it. They are the smarter one right! But that is incorrect - their ego is probably costing them.
By default, they should make it super easy for anyone to disagree. Beyond that they should make it so there are very few instances where there needs to be a discussion like that. Because they have properly delegated authority and trust to teams to get stuff done.
When the powerful person things the team has done it wrong, ideally, they should pop in and say, "let me understand what you are doing and why". In other words: the powerful person should adopt the role of the humble person, following the advice of that article.
In this way you won't kill good ideas, you won't kill important whistle blows (of the "this would lead to a fuckup" type, as well as the "this is illegal" type), and frustrated good people won't silent quit or loud quit.