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Four levels of decision making: Consensus: everyone agrees. Most time consuming. Vote: have two or more appealing options. Majority wins, but everyone is rela
by notjustanymike 7y ago
Four levels of decision making:
Consensus: everyone agrees. Most time consuming.
Vote: have two or more appealing options. Majority wins, but everyone is relatively happy with the outcome.
Consult: get everyone's input, but ultimately you decide.
Dictate: you decide, no external input. Fastest.
If you start a meeting by outlining which process you intend to use it helps. All are valid approaches, and depend on the context of the situation.
I use consult quite often when deciding on a technical direction.
- gHosts 7y agoConsensus is NOT about everyone agrees on the solution... it's about everyone agrees that they have been heard and understood. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282
- vivekseth 7y agoThat link defines what the IETF means by "rough consensus". In this context, I think it just refers to "general agreement". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus