CBI Managing Director David Fairman talks to Noah Susskind about leaders as consensus builders.
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CBI Managing Director David Fairman talks to Noah Susskind about leaders as consensus builders.
It's time to break the rules. Consider this new way to run your meetings, build consensus, and get results. Every day, groups of all kinds attempt to reach agreement using Robert's Rules of Order. These arcane rituals—otherwise known as parliamentary procedure—usually produce a victorious majority and a dissatisfied minority that can't wait to bring issues up again until it gets what it wants. Indeed, decisions made by "majority rule" are inherently unstable and usually produce far less satisfying results than if everyone had worked together.
In this podcast, Hal Movius and Noah Susskind discuss why building individual negotiation skills can fail to produce organizational results.
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