Executive Summary
What should a team do when it’s tasked with making a decision or recommendation but can’t reach consensus? Leaders give plenty of thought to the data and analysis needed to kick off and carry on these sorts of discussions. But they typically don’t consider how they’d like to finish them. Of course, they should’t know in advance what decision will be made. But they should know how it will be made if people can’t agree. If everyone reports to one boss and that person is in the room, the answer is simple. If not, who is accountable? Does the…
