When Competing Accountabilities Share One Role
Recurring management failure may be a role-design problem. This diagnostic brief examines what happens when capability stewardship and business delivery compete inside the same role, and what repeated failure across different incumbents can reveal about the structure.
Recurring management problems can begin with the construction of the role itself.
This diagnostic brief examines a specific structural condition: capability stewardship and delivery accountability assigned to the same role even when their demands diverge. Use it to test whether repeated management problems are reproducing the role design.
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