[bananabreakfast]

Hard disagree.

A senior leadership team without a key decision maker is fundamentally lost and seeks only self preservation through short term goals.

Here's another example: every government on Earth. All have a single key decision maker at the top. In democracies they can be kicked out, but they have total control while they're in power.

[dragonwriter]

> Here's another example: every government on Earth. All have a single key decision maker at the top.

No, they don't. A system with a council with a chair with no significant additional decisionmaking power over other members is not unheard of.

[threeseed]

> All have a single key decision maker at the top. In democracies they can be kicked out, but they have total control while they're in power

This isn't remotely correct.

a) All democracies I can think of are derived from the Westminister system where there are branches of government e.g. House/Senate who need to agree to get laws passed. Pretty far from total control as Biden is experiencing now.

b) Many democracies e.g. Australia don't have the PM/President be directly elected and instead are appointed by the winning party. Thus their power and control is limited to what is gifted by the party and can be withdrawn at any time at which point a new leader is appointed. Again pretty far from total control.