In many large global companies, growing organisational complexity, anchored in strong product, functional, and regional axes, has clouded accountabilities. That means leaders are less able to delegate decisions cleanly, and the number of decision makers has risen.
The result is too many meetings and email threads with too little high-quality dialogue as executives ricochet between boredom and disengagement, paralysis, and anxiety.
Few large organisations have simple systems in place to make sure decisions are categorized so that they can be made by the right people in the right way at the right time.
The path to better decision making is a matter of untangling the crossed web of accountability, one decision at a time.
More on McKinsey’s review of each entreprise-level decisions can be found HERE.
