Vector Pods as Cumulative Responsibility

Edo Segal's name for the small groups of three or four people whose job is to decide what should be built rather than to build it themselves — read through Follett's framework as the contemporary instantiation of cumulative responsibility. Vector pods exhibit the structural features Follett specified: authority derives from situated knowledge, not hierarchical position; decisions emerge through integrative process, not command; each member brings a distinct angle of vision whose collision with the others generates readings no individual could produce. The pods work, when they work, because the organizational culture genuinely distributes authority. When the culture retains hierarchical override as its practiced norm, the pods devolve into consulting groups whose recommendations are decorative.