Software for Your Head

PATTERN: DECIDER

PROBLEM

Your team's decision process does not provide each team member with an explicit say, or provide a means to hold members accountable for the result.

TEAMS MUST INCORPORATE FREE WILL OR LOSE VALUE

Choices demonstrate free will and are one sign of sentient presence. People have free will. Take it away, reduce it, pretend that they don't have it, or allow them to pretend they don't, and they are greatly diminished. A team can never surpass the limits of its individual members unless it exploits or even increases the exercise of their free will. An individual can never become a part of—nor really identify with—a team that requires the subversion of his free will as a precondition of membership. Such subversion paradoxically ...