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Disagreements affect morale and slow down execution time, and consensus-building dilutes ownership which also affects morale and in the mid-term also slows down
by pvarangot 7y ago
Disagreements affect morale and slow down execution time, and consensus-building dilutes ownership which also affects morale and in the mid-term also slows down decision making.
You can deactivate consensus-building and encourage disagree and commit without being a jerk. It's one of the though ones when you are leading, but it can be pulled off. Of course you need to collectively make the judgement that you want to give ownership to tight groups and that people will need to sense if they need to disagree and commit, otherwise you will sound delusional and get out of touch with the rest of the team.
- thinkingkong 7y agoAgreed; In an emergency. You aren't having an emergency for years at a time. That's just normal.
- bartread 7y agoNonsense. Tell many people who lived through World War II in an active theatre or, in more recent decades, conflicts in Somalia, Syria, or Yemen, that, "You aren't having an emergency for years at a time. That's just normal." Steering back from warfare to business, after returning to Apple it took Steve Jobs several years it around and put it on a long-term firm stable financial footing. He avoided bankruptcy fairly quickly (he had no other option), but they were by no means out of the woods. In the auto industry it took years for Toyota and, particularly, Nissan to turn around after WWII. In the early 1980s Chrysler were in a dreadful state after a combination of years of mismanagement and the second oil shock of 1979. These problems were not quick or easy to fix.