[1] Decision downloaders can be classified into three groups: robust, restricted, and remedial.
[2] Robust decision downloaders have a different frame of reference than their less effective counterparts.
They know employees learn at different rates, in different ways and from different of sources[3] In each situation, the decisionmakers —either by choice or by prior agreement— do not involve others in the decision-making process.
Often, the subsequent communications are an afterthought borne out of psychological exhaustion from the decision-making process itself.
[4] The term was coined by Phillip G. Clampitt and M. Lee Williams in an article published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2007.