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Consensus management does not work, period. Eventually, it will put you out of business.
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141 |
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Agreeableness is about seeking social harmony, not cognitive consensus. It’s possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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89 |
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If extreme positions become more integral to who we are, we ought to see less escalation of commitment from those with consensus positions.
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174 |
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Alarmism and anger are good to the pocketbooks of advocates of all ideological stripes; consensus and optimism are bad for business.
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101 |
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For extraordinary outcomes, seek conviction in your work and build teams that value conviction over consensus.
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205 |
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Good decisions don’t so much need consensus as they need commitment.
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153 |
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There seems to be a broad consensus not so much even that work is good but that not working is very bad; that anyone who is not slaving away harder than he’d like at something he doesn’t especially enjoy is a bad person…
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