S02E10 - Responsibility Without Authority

Send us Fan MailBeing trusted with responsibility should feel like an opportunity.Until you discover you can’t approve the resources, change the priorities, direct the people involved or make a meaningful decision without somebody else’s permission.In this episode, I look at responsibility without authority from the employee’s side: the exhausting cycle of chasing approvals, working around invisible boundaries and being held accountable for an outcome you were never given a genuine chance to shape.Over time, capable people become cautious. Initiative fades, credibility suffers and what began as an opportunity starts to feel more like exposure.If someone is expected to own an outcome, does their authority genuinely match their responsibility, not just on the organisation chart, but in the way the work actually happens?This podcast is recorded on Wadjuk Noongar Country. I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this land and pay my respects to Elders past and present.