Sounds like making decisions by consent would be fairly slow; does consent slow down decision making?
(Answer courtesy of Brian Robertson, CEO Ternary Software.com) A. Once you get used to it decisions making by consent has the opposite effect. It is usually faster than decision making by any other means, including autocratic decision making! There are 3 reasons for this: There is an explicit decision-making process which when well facilitated helps a group stay focused and move swiftly through both exploration of an issue and actual decision making. Healthy autocratic decision making often requires some degree of consensus building, whereas consent nicely dodges that need everyone can trust the process itself to result in any buy-in needed. Most importantly it changes the nature of decision-making and process control the “steering” of an organization or team from a predict-and-control model to an experiment-and-adapt model. That changes everything.
