In a business environment, consensus decision-making is often prized for encouraging inclusivity and ensuring all voices are heard. However, an over-reliance on consensus can stymie a company's ...

Discover how partnerships handle decision making through consensus, democracy, or delegation, and the impact of business structure on these processes.

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Consensus, to clarify, is the style of decision-making in which a group discusses and debates various courses of action, while taking care to address the concerns of each participant. This, until ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. While consensus might seem like an easy way to maintain harmony, it often stifles creativity and critical thinking. Effective ...

As law firms continue to compete for talent and scale, many Big Law partners are sacrificing their individual interests and putting their faith in top firm leaders to guide firm strategy. Firms are ...

“We have a consensus culture,” a Fortune 500 executive recently told me, after I asked them how their company usually makes decisions. It’s an answer I hear often, unsurprisingly. Consensus is in ...