Not because the amount was large. Because nobody owned the approval, so it drifted between three inboxes until someone finally asked out loud whose job this was.
Ida Mercer
I write Azimuth from Rotterdam. Before this I ran operations at two small companies and spent a lot of that time watching good teams make avoidable mistakes under time pressure - my own included. This newsletter is the notebook I wish I'd had.
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