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Hey everyone, welcome to another five-minute leader. Today, I want to talk about the idea of building consensus on leadership teams. And I've worked with a lot of different leadership teams over the years, and oftentimes I come across leadership teams where they say, Well, you know, we want to build consensus. We want everybody to agree before we move forward. And that's not the right approach. If you are seeking to build consensus, you are going to take more time, more energy, and more resources than you need. Now, it doesn't mean you need to ignore everybody else's feedback and opinions, but you don't need everybody to agree before you make a decision.
So what's the right approach? Disagreements happen. Debates happen. I encourage them. I love debate. I love having these discussions with my kids, with my family, with friends, with companies that I work with. My job is not to agree with everybody. It's to push organizations and employees and leaders to be future ready. And the way that you become future ready is that you challenge ideas and assumptions and you think differently.
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