In response for my recent group accountability and concensus writing, Darrell posted a link to Michael Lopp's (?) excellent blog entry about mandates. In the very end of that blog entry Michael talks about "external mandates", that is, mandates that are handed down from above without the accompanying reasoning for the mandate.

I've seen that so many times.

And none of those managers have made it to my "list". Most of them have made it on that other list, though.