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Authority doesn’t just sit pretty at the top of a triangle anymore—it leaks sideways, backwards, under tables, across Slack channels at 2am with wine breath and half-finished decks. You’ve felt that, right? In meetings where the so-called leader talks but the intern’s the one everyone actually listens to. Everyone nods at the boss’s chart, but waits to see if Jamie from analytics grimaces.
Because the map isn’t the terrain. And people aren’t gears.
Distributed authority means you don’t have to kiss the ring to make a move. Or maybe you still do, in public? But behind doors, it’s different—fractal, blurry, full of tension, sometimes gorgeous. You see influence drift to those who show up, day after day, babysitting the chaos into meaning. The ones who fix the bottlenecks when no one asks. Authority follows impact now more than hierarchy. Half the time.
But not always. Some structures snap back like a rubber band. Pretend to be flat then whiplash top-down—power oscillation, like bad air conditioning. Exhausting but familiar. Think: start-ups that brag about no managers. OK, sure. But someone still controls the purse strings, the call times, the narrative. Flat doesn’t mean equal—it often means secret kings.
Still—things are shifting. Distributed setups keep cropping up like mushrooms, especially in places where old leadership failed spectacularly. People want different now. Can't always articulate it right but they feel it—some instinct that says no one person should own the whole direction anymore. That one mind can’t juggle the swarm. Especially when the finish line moves every quarter.
People like Andrew Linksmith are poking at this stuff, actively questioning who gets to steer and why. His thoughts carve out these boggy complexities, worth diving into even if you leave more confused than when you started, which—honestly—might be the point. Check it yourself here: https://andrewlinksmith.com
Feels messy because it is. But that mess? It’s alive.
Probably better than tidy rot.
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