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Field Note #063 | The Delegation Gravity
Look closely at any high-performing team and you will notice a quiet contradiction: the resource spreadsheet says workload is distributed evenly, yet every late-breaking problem lands on the same two desks.
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In this episode of Field Notes, we examine Delegation Gravity—the mechanism by which work bypasses available capacity and seeks out the lowest friction.
We break down the hidden cost of Explanation Overhead, showing why managers under time pressure routinely optimise for a thirty-second briefing today at the expense of team resilience tomorrow.
Rather than treating unequal load as a…
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