The Top Decisions research defined a sporadic decision as one that: involves many interests and tends to move horizontally in the organization tends to move vertically in the organization and exhibits stops and starts both involves many interests and tends to move horizontally in the organization and tends to move vertically in the organization and exhibits stops and starts neither involves many interests and tends to move horizontally in the organization nor tends to move vertically in the organization and exhibits stops and startsPower relations are typically thought of as being distributed spatially in organizations: up down across the organization all of these