Role Ambiguity Definition Workplace: When Everyone's Responsible for Everything
Clear org charts hide what role ambiguity actually costs.
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Clear org charts hide what role ambiguity actually costs.
Inspirational posters don't fix structural problems.
Every tool swap gets treated like a merger and nobody blinks
You shipped fast. You also shipped the wrong thing three times.
You filed the update. That's not the same as owning it.
Everyone tracks everything. Nobody decides anything.
They called it shared ownership. Nobody owned anything.
You own it on paper. You control nothing in practice.
The structure exists. The authority doesn't.
Everyone's responsible. Nobody's deciding.
It's not about learning. It's about finding someone to blame.
You can't own what you can't touch.
Accountable for the outcome, locked out of the room.
It's not a people problem. It's an architecture problem.
You assigned the blame. You forgot to assign the power.