The Trouble with Authority

Andy Walker
5 min readNov 5, 2021

The more you have the less use it becomes

Photo by Ricardo Arce on Unsplash

Whenever you make someone a manager you should ask them why they want to be a manager. A lot of the time you’ll get answers such as:

  • “I want to progress my career”
  • “I want the authority to get things done”

Both of these answers are problematic. The first one implies there is no career path for…

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Andy Walker

Interested in solving complex problems without complexity and self sustaining self improving organisations.