Everyone should be empowered to make as many decisions as possible. It gives people agency.
To make good decisions, you need context, knowledge, good judgement, and clear boundaries. The context gets built by managers who do a good job.
I've spent a decade of my career at 15Five where we've built a system of doing just that based on a weekly check in. When done well it worked marvelously.
The essence of a manager's job is to push context down and pull information up. Here's a short article that explains it well: https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/19/the-fundamental-purpose-of-...
Everyone should be empowered to make as many decisions as possible. It gives people agency.
To make good decisions, you need context, knowledge, good judgement, and clear boundaries. The context gets built by managers who do a good job.
I've spent a decade of my career at 15Five where we've built a system of doing just that based on a weekly check in. When done well it worked marvelously.