The last few weeks, I’ve been writing about development principles for Biotech data teams. This next one continues with the theme of collaboration: Delegating decisions and accountability as far down as you can is the only way to continuously adapt to an unknown and changing environment.
One aspect of a bottleneck is that it may become bi-directional. Important details observed by the hands-on team are likely to be filtered out, rather than percolate upwards. It's hard to pick out early warnings from a flood of messaging, so management needs to cultivate active listening. One outlier might just be noise, but getting the same outlier weekly or from different directions just could be news.
One aspect of a bottleneck is that it may become bi-directional. Important details observed by the hands-on team are likely to be filtered out, rather than percolate upwards. It's hard to pick out early warnings from a flood of messaging, so management needs to cultivate active listening. One outlier might just be noise, but getting the same outlier weekly or from different directions just could be news.