The Unaccountability Machine

By Dan Davies

About The Unaccountability Machine

Dan Davies explores how large organizations distribute decision-making and responsibility. Using ideas from systems thinking, he examines why institutions can produce damaging outcomes while leaving individuals apparently unable to explain, own, or change the decisions.

Why I include it

I include this to examine accountability in both business and public institutions, especially when a process makes responsibility difficult to locate.

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Political Leadership & Civic Duty

Examines how organizations diffuse responsibility and produce decisions for which nobody seems answerable.

What to look for while reading

Which evidence supports the author's argument, and how does this account change the questions you bring to the other books in this section?

Perspective & context

I bring these books together to compare perspectives and develop judgment. No single author has the final word.

Key themes

Political Leadership & Civic Duty

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Praise & Reviews

“The kind of book from which you look up to find the world suddenly more comprehensible.”
— The Guardian

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