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Scenario

When consensus decision-making becomes a way to avoid leadership responsibility

Our leadership team makes decisions by consensus but it's become a way to avoid accountability because when things go wrong no one owns the outcome. We spend hours in meetings getting everyone to agree but then when we need to change course quickly we're paralyzed because no one wants to break the consensus.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A team has mistaken unanimous agreement for shared accountability, creating a system where no one can act decisively when circumstances change.

Your guide for this
Aurelius
Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Manufacturing — Mining, Utilities & Process Industries?”

Peri

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