Jul 24, 2017 · 1 min read
2 things:
- Are you aware of decision fatigue? It’s the idea that our decision making capacity diminishes the more decisions we make, the more tired we are, etc. This is one of the reasons why some people (Barack Obama, for example) limit the number of choices they make every day (in BO’s case, he wore the same color suit), so that they can apply all of their cognitive power to meaningful decisions. A lot of times people will delegate some decisions to other people so that they can apply their focus to others — this in both hierarchical and non-hierarchical organizations. This is what I was alluding to here — sometimes there are just too many decisions to make and people find it helpful to limit the number of decisions they make.
- There are cases where people are working in an organization whose mission aligns with theirs, and they’re working with other people whose values they admire. In these cases, delegation of some decision making to others can make sense to avoid decision fatigue, no?
