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When democratic leadership leads to bad decisions

My team voted to pursue a strategy I think is wrong and I am trying to decide whether to override their democratic decision or let them fail and learn from it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Participatory management can produce collective choices that individual wisdom recognizes as harmful, testing faith in shared decision-making.

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