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Something in your organization is working harder than it should for what it's producing. The meetings run long.
Decisions take longer than they should. Your calendar fills with conversations you did not expect to be part of. The team is capable. The effort is real. The results are not keeping pace.
Most leaders look for the cause in culture, talent, or strategy. Where Decisions Live argues the cause is usually structural. The organization's decision architecture — who owns which decisions, how they move across functions, how authority is documented and exercised in practice — was built for an earlier version of the business and has not been redesigned to carry what it now requires.
This book gives leaders a framework for diagnosing and redesigning that architecture. The framework rests on three principles: ownership defines where decisions live, interfaces define where they meet, and clarity defines how they move. Each is translated into practical diagnostic questions and design criteria a senior leadership team can apply.
The book moves in three phases. The first names the patterns: escalation habits, authority drift, coordination failures, and the structural debt that forms when design is deferred. The second examines why capable leaders who recognize the design problem often do not act on it. The third is a working guide to redesign — how to define decision ownership, build the interfaces between functions, and distribute clarity so the organization can navigate by structure rather than by person.
Endurance is not a function of effort. It is a function of design.
Where Decisions Live is for the leader who is ready to examine both.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Where Decisions Live: Designing the Architecture Your Organization Navigates By is a book for executives and senior leaders who have run capable organizations and still found them falling short of what they were built to produce.The argument is structural, not behavioral. Most leadership literature treats organizational problems as symptoms of the wrong mindset, the wrong culture, or the wrong talent. This book treats them as symptoms of the wrong design. When decisions consistently land in the wrong place, when authority drifts upward regardless of what the org chart says, when coordination between functions consumes more energy than the work itself, the cause is rarely a person. It is an architecture that was never built to carry what the organization now requires.The book is organized in three phases. The first names the patterns most leaders recognize but rarely diagnose correctly: escalation habits, calendar overload, recurring coordination failures, decisions that take longer than they should. The second examines the structural system behind those patterns, including four reasons capable leaders understand the design problem and still do not act on it. The third provides a working framework for redesign: how to define where decision authority lives, how to design the interfaces between functions where decisions change hands, and how to distribute the clarity required for the organization to function by structure rather than by person.The framework rests on three principles. Ownership defines where decisions live. Interfaces define where they meet.Clarity defines how they move. The book translates each into practical diagnostic questions and design criteria a senior leadership team can apply.The human cost of structural failure runs through the book as a grounding thread. The leaders who work inside broken architectures do not only produce worse outcomes. They carry a personal cost for a structural problem they did not design and often cannot name.Where Decisions Live is for the leader who knows something in the organization is working harder than it should, and is ready to examine what it would take to design something that lasts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798999228543
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Where Decisions Live: Designing the Architecture Your Organization Navigates By is a book for executives and senior leaders who have run capable organizations and still found them falling short of what they were built to produce.The argument is structural, not behavioral. Most leadership literature treats organizational problems as symptoms of the wrong mindset, the wrong culture, or the wrong talent. This book treats them as symptoms of the wrong design. When decisions consistently land in the wrong place, when authority drifts upward regardless of what the org chart says, when coordination between functions consumes more energy than the work itself, the cause is rarely a person. It is an architecture that was never built to carry what the organization now requires.The book is organized in three phases. The first names the patterns most leaders recognize but rarely diagnose correctly: escalation habits, calendar overload, recurring coordination failures, decisions that take longer than they should. The second examines the structural system behind those patterns, including four reasons capable leaders understand the design problem and still do not act on it. The third provides a working framework for redesign: how to define where decision authority lives, how to design the interfaces between functions where decisions change hands, and how to distribute the clarity required for the organization to function by structure rather than by person.The framework rests on three principles. Ownership defines where decisions live. Interfaces define where they meet.Clarity defines how they move. The book translates each into practical diagnostic questions and design criteria a senior leadership team can apply.The human cost of structural failure runs through the book as a grounding thread. The leaders who work inside broken architectures do not only produce worse outcomes. They carry a personal cost for a structural problem they did not design and often cannot name.Where Decisions Live is for the leader who knows something in the organization is working harder than it should, and is ready to examine what it would take to design something that lasts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798999228543
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Where Decisions Live: Designing the Architecture Your Organization Navigates By is a book for executives and senior leaders who have run capable organizations and still found them falling short of what they were built to produce.The argument is structural, not behavioral. Most leadership literature treats organizational problems as symptoms of the wrong mindset, the wrong culture, or the wrong talent. This book treats them as symptoms of the wrong design. When decisions consistently land in the wrong place, when authority drifts upward regardless of what the org chart says, when coordination between functions consumes more energy than the work itself, the cause is rarely a person. It is an architecture that was never built to carry what the organization now requires.The book is organized in three phases. The first names the patterns most leaders recognize but rarely diagnose correctly: escalation habits, calendar overload, recurring coordination failures, decisions that take longer than they should. The second examines the structural system behind those patterns, including four reasons capable leaders understand the design problem and still do not act on it. The third provides a working framework for redesign: how to define where decision authority lives, how to design the interfaces between functions where decisions change hands, and how to distribute the clarity required for the organization to function by structure rather than by person.The framework rests on three principles. Ownership defines where decisions live. Interfaces define where they meet.Clarity defines how they move. The book translates each into practical diagnostic questions and design criteria a senior leadership team can apply.The human cost of structural failure runs through the book as a grounding thread. The leaders who work inside broken architectures do not only produce worse outcomes. They carry a personal cost for a structural problem they did not design and often cannot name.Where Decisions Live is for the leader who knows something in the organization is working harder than it should, and is ready to examine what it would take to design something that lasts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798999228543
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