The author uses the military as an example of top down and that is true in many cases.

However, after reading the book Corps Business [0] about the United States Marine Corps, you realize that they are VERY big into having a top level mission but almost all of the decision making is pushed down to the lowest levels. In fact, if they do move decision making up the chain, it's usually for non-combat reason e.g. organizing the mess halls is moved up, how should we take that hill is moved "down" and closer to the front line troops.

Several of the other threads have mentioned "but how do we become those orgs??" and my best answer is just to read the book.

NOTE: the book was written in the late 1990s so there are some parts that are dated but the overall concepts are still sound.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W94FFU?lv=shuf&channelId=500&r...