FIELD NOTE #052 | The Escalation Was a Request for Permission

<p>An escalation is a question with a destination.</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes the destination is expertise.</p><p>Sometimes it is ownership.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The context is ready.</li><li>The options are ready.</li><li>The decision may be ready too.</li><p><br></p></ul><p>What is missing may simply be someone willing to put their name behind it.</p><p><br></p><p>That is Accountability Transfer:</p><p><em>the movement of decision ownership upward, disguised as a request for senior input.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Not every escalation belongs here.</p><p><br></p><p>Some genuinely require authority.</p><p>Some require expertise.</p><p>Some require context that exists higher in the organisation.</p><p><br></p><p>The interesting part is knowing which kind has just arrived.</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p>Because a business depends on repeatability. </p><p>And repeatability depends, in part, on decisions being made at the right level.</p><p><br></p><p>When ownership keeps travelling upward while context stays below, the organisation can become very good at escalation.</p><p>And rather less good at deciding.</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p>This episode explores the distinction — and the two questions that make it visible:</p><p>~ What decision would you make if I weren&#39;t in the room?</p><p>~ What do you need from me that you cannot provide for yourself?</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes the answer really does belong upstairs.</p><p>Sometimes only the question does.</p><p><br></p><p>Field Note #052</p><p>---

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