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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.

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Your team agrees on everything and owns nothing, so no one can act when it counts.

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