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How consensus-driven teams avoid necessary conflict

Our leadership team makes every decision by consensus which sounds great in principle but in practice means we spend three hours debating the color of buttons while avoiding any conversation that might create actual conflict. We've become experts at finding the path of least resistance and I think we're making our company worse because we're afraid to disagree meaningfully.

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Your team avoids all conflict, so decisions drag and nobody says what they really think.

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