Accountability Without an Owner: How Fragmented Decision Rights Are Costing You More Than You Think
Modern organizations have become expert at distributing responsibility while inadvertently eliminating it. When every stakeholder has a voice in a decision but no single leader carries the outcome, the result is not collaboration — it is paralysis dressed in the language of inclusion. This article examines how consolidating decision authority, far from being authoritarian, is one of the most strategically sound moves a competitive enterprise can make.