So consensus doesn’t scale well at all, and such impractical quantities of time and energy are required to reach a decision that the system gets bypassed more often than not. This leaves consensus-based organizations with the same problems as those organizations with no explicit structure. Even when consensus is achieved, the result is often a watered-down group decision that becomes very difficult to change, saddling would-be innovators with less-than-ideal entrenched structures to navigate. While consensus-based approaches are often motivated by a genuine desire to embrace and honor more
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