I couldn't agree more. Most of the members of the team here will most likely vest as well, and the way employee performance can affect vesting is very much a relevant question to them.
To go back one step, saying a manager must decide alone otherwise it's an escape from responsibility is quite a bizarre claim to make. Making a decision without consulting your team, when your goal is to establish trust, will 100% backfire. It will come back to haunt you EVEN if people agreed with the decision, simply because that decision was taken arbitrarily. That such important decisions could be arbitrary, without meaningful involvement of the team, signals to the team that they are all at the mercy of such future arbitrary decisions. Finally, consulting the team does not mean that the decision is carried by everyone. A consensus should be sought, and the founder would be foolish to make such a decision against his team, but ultimately, the founder is in charge of the final decision and will bear the responsibility for it.
To go back one step, saying a manager must decide alone otherwise it's an escape from responsibility is quite a bizarre claim to make. Making a decision without consulting your team, when your goal is to establish trust, will 100% backfire. It will come back to haunt you EVEN if people agreed with the decision, simply because that decision was taken arbitrarily. That such important decisions could be arbitrary, without meaningful involvement of the team, signals to the team that they are all at the mercy of such future arbitrary decisions. Finally, consulting the team does not mean that the decision is carried by everyone. A consensus should be sought, and the founder would be foolish to make such a decision against his team, but ultimately, the founder is in charge of the final decision and will bear the responsibility for it.