http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/how-space-x-learned-to-make-faster-decisions/
SpaceX is a space transportation company. The company adopted faster decision making to make the whole company operated more efficiently. With this company as an example, the author came up with three ideas regarding how to make faster decisions: Offer a shared vision, Encourage more problem solving and Make decisions in parallel. I will give my comments focusing on the second point: Encourage more problem solving.
Ecourage problem solving, according to the author, means that the employees should seek problems to solve rather than wait for tasks. In my point of view, this method is useful to some extent, but there are still some specific problem about it. At first, to achieve this, the employees must be fully motivated and passionate about their work. Nevertheless, in workplaces, not all employees are as motivated as the employers expect to be. So the efficiency is relatively not that high. Secondly, staff initiatively seeking tasks has the tendency of chaos. Some work will be left undone and other work will be done repeatedly. That leads to disorder and inefficiency. So besides the employees seeking problems, the leader are supposed to assign tasks rationally to avoid confusion.
To conclude, ecouraging problem solving is indeed an efficient way. If the employers motivate the employees and assign tasks to them properly, this method would be better.
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