I've struggled with the practical application of decision rights. Allow me to use a clip to motivate my questions:
I appreciate that responsibility, accountability and authority are the elements of getting things done, but I'm not sure that a project driver needs to have all of them to appropriately align incentives. For instance, I have been a project lead where I have had little authority, but still had responsibility and accountability. I didn't have much authority because I lacked the perspective and track record to have high potential to make optimal decisions for the project.
What do you think? How do accountability, responsibility and authority interplay to get the best results? In your experience, what are the trade offs between having all three with one person versus pulling the authority to a higher level?
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