
The Weight · Track 2
Atmospheric Folk · Heavy, intimate, resolute
Lenny Rachitsky · My favorite decision-making frameworks
“What is important isn't that everyone agrees, it's that everyone is listened to. And then the right person makes a decision, communicates it clearly, and rallies everyone around it.”- Gokul Rajaram
At Square, employees were surveyed about their number one frustration. The answer: decision-making. Not the decisions themselves — the lack of transparency around how decisions are made. Gokul Rajaram and colleagues created the SPADE framework as an alternative to consensus, built on accountability and clarity, where the person executing the decision is the one who decides.