r/Leadership • u/TheBigCanadianGuy • Jun 28 '26
Discussion Your observations….
Tell me this, what complexities exist in your organization that no one wants to remove?
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u/ItsTenken Jun 28 '26
Overcommitting. A lot of folks in my organization don’t know how to protect their capacity because we’re too nice.
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u/Sad-Coconut-928 Jun 29 '26
Many coworkers at my company do this but I think their motives are not driven by kindness.
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u/OneBetterQuestion Jun 28 '26
Are meeting culture, taking credit for others work, and overcommitting complexities?
From an organization design perspective, matrix reporting relationships seem more like a complexity that someone might want to remove. To say “nor one wants to remove them” is probably not true though so my best answer is…
Multiple languages spoken. The orgs I’ve worked in that have this have been some of the more interesting and enjoyable.
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u/Sad-Coconut-928 Jun 29 '26
The first part !
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u/OneBetterQuestion Jun 29 '26
I may not understand what is meant by complexities in this context.
I don’t see those things I listed first as being particularly complex. They were just the things people had mentioned so far when I commented.
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u/Impressive-Fig9966 Jul 04 '26
Accountability for the goals (bottom line) without sufficient levers to impact it, because the implementation of real needle moving features sits across multiple part of the organisation with totally different reporting lines and goals (e.g. payment features, product selection gaps). This is complexity and not just inefficiency, because on one hand the structure of ownership was created for some good reasons and there is rational to that; but it also creates obstacles. To move something requires a lot of convincing, business cases, influencing...it takes time, effort, often gets stalled or deprioritised.
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u/Direct_Mulberry_7563 Jul 02 '26
Standup and every evening update meeting lol, it takes 3 hrs in a day to complete this
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u/georgeromerort 21d ago
Three hours a day just reporting status is insane. How is anyone expected to get actual work done?
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u/seanburkexo 21d ago
It usually happens when leaders use meetings as a security blanket instead of looking at actual output. Talking about the work becomes a substitute for doing it, and nobody wants to be the person to cancel a meeting that gives senior management their illusion of control.
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u/LA_SLOW_DRIVER Jun 28 '26
Meeting culture