Directive Governance
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Directive governance is the pattern where information flows up (compressed and lossy), decisions are made centrally based on that compressed information, directives flow down for execution, and accountability is for compliance with directives rather than for outcomes. Informally: chain-of-command governance with upward communication.
Connections
- 🌳Command Control Misnomer
- 🌳Crisis Centralization Ratchet
- 🌳Data Pipeline Is Achilles Heel
- 🌳Delegation Mimicry Without Cultural Substrate
- 🌳Directive Governance Cargo Cult
- 🌳Directive Governance Is Not Keynesian
- 🌳Directive Governance Preconditions
- 🌳Essential Complexity Makes Software Ungovernable
- 🌳Subsidiarity
- 🌳Subsidiarity Is Not Flat Organization
- 🌳The Failure Argument Is Conditional
- 🌳The Ratchet Has No Market Analog
- 🪶Cargo Cult Governance
- 🪶Deliverance from Directive Governance
- 🪶Subsidiarity is not Hayek
- 🪶Tech Companies and Directive Governance: A Situationship