To build resilient organizations, you need to empower your team to make decisions.

Link: Empower Others, by Corey Ford at Point CAnother superb post from Corey Ford:“There's a simple diagnostic for any organization: Are your leaders focused on accumulating control, or on empowering the people around them?Too many people in positions of power are overly focused on themselves. They hoard decisions. They micromanage. They grab power. And the people around them suffer for it. Those employees wait for direction instead of taking initiative. They bring problems instead of solutions. They ask "now what?" instead of saying "here's what I think we should do.””He goes on to describe bus factor, the question of what happens if you’re hit by a bus. (My colleague Adam Hirsch recently offered “lottery factor”, reframing the question to be about what happens when someone wins the lottery and goes away to live the life of their dreams, which is more fun to think about.) Could your organization live without you?The only way to build an organization that can live without you is to…