An Advisory Council comprising a much larger number of stakeholders (possibly separated into smaller groups) might also be created in order to advise, deliberate, provide viewpoints, and to provide support to the smaller decision making groups.
Small decisions made huge differences.
Seemingly small decisions made by not terribly senior people had consequences that affected the entire corporation.
[One of my passions is kayaking in the lakes and reservoirs of the Sierras, and I hate to see the water level drop.] As I jump out of bed, a text suggests that I "shower first, then coffee!" With an aggregate impact of small decisions made by homeowners like me all over the state, we succeeded in averting the need for that reservoir to drain further…at least for today.
The book is dense with detail as it parses through thousands of observations and endless small decisions made over the course of those days.
Communications is the cloak used to cover the real problem: the vagaries of small group decision making.
In small group decision making, suggestions prefaced with qualifiers like "This might be a good way to go," have been found to be accepted more often than forthright statements like "Let's do it this way".
He makes every small decision you make seem like life or death and you make it just as important because he seems to.
As an apprentice svengali worming his way to degrading world domination, Simon Cowell would no doubt have paid attention to how Napier-Bell made things happen, for better or worse, and his response to the Napier-Bell understanding that all pop music was ultimately dolled up novelty trash helped in the sort of small-minded calculating decision making that led to Susan Boyle.
The converse is also true: "bad data" (big or small) makes for poor decision making.
Each designer controlled their assigned section of the game, and working with a small team enabled quick decision making and ease in keeping plot elements consistent.
