Distributed Authority Quotes

Their whole civil policy was adverse to concentration of power in the hands of any single individual, but inclined to the opposite principle of division among a number of equals.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.