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Field Note #046 | Consensus Is Not Agreement
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Everyone agreed. At least, that is what the minutes said.Six weeks later the decision is being executed four different ways by people who were all in the same room.---
This episode is about the gap between people believing a decision is right and people deciding the conversation is finished. Consensus is a property of a room. Agreement is a property of a person. You can see the first immediately. You cannot see the second until a habit has to die.---
In this episode:Why silence in meetings is economics rather than politics, and why "please speak up" does almost nothing about it.How implementation works as a delayed audit of the agreement that preceded it.Consensus Debt: what you borrow when a nod gets recorded as belief, and who sets the repayment schedule.The single question that turns agreement from sentiment into evidence: what will you do differently tomorrow because of this decision?Why "we disagree and we are proceeding" is a stronger organisational state than "we all agree."Consensus ends a conversation. Agreement changes behaviour.
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