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recently published an article on how groups make decisions. One of the ways is by building consensus. I wanted to elaborate on it today because groups can often get consensus building wrong.
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nbsp; Teams sometimes believe that the goal of consensus building is to get everyone to fall in love with the decision. It’s not. In fact, the goal isn’t even to get everyone to like the decision. The goal of consensus building is to get everyone to live with th
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decision. That’s a big difference. Let me try to share an example from one of my favorite business books, “The Abilene