If you’re in a leadership position — at work or in the community — you make decisions and oversee decision-making processes. Often it’s best to consult the people you are leading to reach a group ...

Blocking progress: consensus decision making in the anti-nuclear movement Howard Ryan argues that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are ...

AI is bringing about an organizational reckoning. While most leaders probably agree that their organizations will need to adapt, too few are willing to admit that this will require them to abandon one ...

“We have a consensus culture,” a Fortune 500 executive recently told me, after I asked them how their company usually makes decisions. It’s an answer I hear often, unsurprisingly. Consensus is in ...

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Building and sustaining trust with stakeholders is one of the biggest challenges every executive grapples with. Too many executives don’t realize that there is one thing they do every day that is ...

Trying to persuade people to abandon deeply held views often backfires, leaving groups entrenched and unable to move forward. A new study by researchers at the University of Bath in the UK proposes a ...

A critique of 'consensus' decision making processes, based on analysis, and the personal experiences of a refugee from 'activistism', with a look at some historical precedents. Submitted by Django on ...

Consensus, to clarify, is the style of decision-making in which a group discusses and debates various courses of action, while taking care to address the concerns of each participant. This, until ...