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Decision Making - Home The topic of decision-making discusses how decisions are made within organizations, and by whom. In Teal organizations, decision-making authority is truly distributed throughout the organization. A new perspective In Teal organizations decision-making is highly distributed. In practice The advice process Almost all Teal organizations use, in one form or another, what an early practitioner (AES) called the “advice process.” It comes in many forms, but the essence is consistent: any person can make any decision after seeking advice from 1) everyone who will be meaningfully affected, and 2) people with expertise in the matter. Advice received must be taken into consideration. Advice is simply advice. In practice, this process proves remarkably effective. It's not consensus It is a misunderstanding that self-management decisions are made by getting everyone to agree, or even involving everyone in the decision. Ownership of the issue stays clearly with one person: the decision maker. Role modeling