Decisions involve risk. As the leader, you’re ultimately accountable for the hundreds of decisions made by your teams every day. Even if it were possible for you to be involved in every decision, it wouldn’t be the best use of your time or your team’s capability. As experienced leaders, it is tempting to serve as the arbiter on critical and complex matters; yet a wise leader knows this is not only demotivating for the team but leads to poorer results. In a complex domain, the more varied the perspectives, the better the quality of our decisions. So how do we, as leaders, help ensure our...
Doc Norton
CTO2
Doc Norton is passionate about working with teams to improve delivery and build great organizations. Once a dedicated code slinger, Doc has turned his energy toward helping teams, departments, and companies work better together in pursuit of better software. Working with a wide range of companies such as Groupon, Nationwide Insurance, and Belly, Doc has applied tenets of agile, lean, systems thinking, and servant leadership to develop highly-effective cultures and drastically improve their ability to deliver valuable software and products.