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Scenario

When consensus decision-making becomes conflict avoidance

Our small executive team makes decisions by consensus but what really happens is we talk until whoever cares most gets their way and everyone else just goes along to avoid conflict. It feels collaborative but it's actually just exhausting and the people with the most energy or strongest opinions always win.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

False collaboration emerges when teams mistake conflict avoidance for agreement and mistake exhaustion for consensus.

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