[darkerside]

There's a lot of wisdom in this comment.

> If everyone's fully responsible for what they do, they don't do their work

Just to clarify, I think this means because they're busy rationalizing their decisions to invested stakeholders instead. Is that right?

[gbear605]

Or rationalizing their decisions to their bosses or their bosses’ bosses.

[darkerside]

I think the idea is, rationalizing to one person, who can then represent your ideas to the many others with a vested interest, provides leverage to you as an employee (easier to convince one person than to convince every person). Of course, managers can do a good or bad job of this, and done poorly, can create more work for their employees.