This is simply an awful thought piece and is wrongheaded.
The problem is not collaboration nor feedback. It is the lack of a decider. Deciding by committee is a bad way to run as an org grows. Collaboration is still key.
One person needs to be the person who decides. Decides what? That is the trick. The further down you push decision making, the faster things go. But someone is the decider, not a group.
Yes, exactly. In many cases you don't exactly need to involve the whole group but without a decider things stall out. And suddenly getting a decision about something looks like "collaboration", and gets struck down by the great confusion which is this authors take. It's a lack of decision making, simply put.
Articles like this are quite poisonous, because they take language and mutate it for purposes that aren't quite sincere, and then next thing you know something necessary and good is worthless.
Yes and no, decision is not the only problem. Some people tend to default to ask for someone's help everytime they get blocked. Or managers drop a quick "ask Bob, he already did something similar", which might be ok on the short term because Bob might indeed give you the answer, but Alice didn't spend the time struggling and learning to be independent in the process, and Bob gets buried in random requests that prevent him from shipping his own stuff.
It's not a clear cut thing, definitely helping each other is useful, but like everything there's a balance, and striking it is bot straightforward
The problem is not collaboration nor feedback. It is the lack of a decider. Deciding by committee is a bad way to run as an org grows. Collaboration is still key.
One person needs to be the person who decides. Decides what? That is the trick. The further down you push decision making, the faster things go. But someone is the decider, not a group.