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The goal should not be to have people follow your lead. The goal should be: get your team to follow good ideas, and not follow bad ideas. No matter who proposed
by partycoder 8y ago
The goal should not be to have people follow your lead. The goal should be: get your team to follow good ideas, and not follow bad ideas. No matter who proposed them.
Smart people often have good ideas, but they can have bad ideas as well and a team needs to be prepared to reject them.
Likewise, the lowest ranking person in the organization can have a trillion dollar idea and your organization should be prepared to profit from it.
Then, no consensus building approach has a bulletproof guarantee that a consensus will happen.
- BSVino 8y agoHello. Article author here. I agree, people should only follow good ideas. I didn't explicitly mention this in the article, but I believe that a person in a healthy work environment who genuinely follows the process of feedback as outlines will eventually turn their bad or mediocre ideas into good ideas as they integrate feedback, or else the leadership won't approve their change and the team will refuse to adopt the idea. After all, it's tough to get people to voluntarily adopt a bad idea.
- newfoundglory 8y agoUnfortunately I've seen people much more eager to adopt a bad idea that is easier in the short term than a good idea that involves hard or boring work - like "should we refactoring and build on our existing code or throw it out and start again?", where people vote for throwing it out because "I don't even understand this code!"