Think about a time when you’ve been in a group that had to make a collective decision that didn’t turn out well. Can you identify any specific decision making errors the team made?
A collective decision is most effective when all partners exercise leadership. Partners need to work collegially instead of dominating those they perceives as less powerful. Partners ideally bring a variety of strengths and potential contributions to the table. Collective decision need each partner’s power and strength, with new operating principle that sees the whole collaborative as greater than the sum of its parts. Leaders from partner organization may experience difficulty in sharing power, but collaborative will fail unless partners willingly cultivate a new style of leadership or partnership that is equal.
Collective decision often time consuming because I was in group decision that took a long time to reach a solution. Whenever someone makes a compelling claim, there would be another person asking for supporting data. There were conformity pressures. There was issue by group members to be accepted and considered an asset to the group can squash any overt disagreement. Group decision can be dominant by one or few members looking for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. If they’re low and medium ability members they sometime don’t have evidence, or proposed strategies and use the resulting data to guide decision, the group’s overall effectiveness will suffer. May time group decision suffer from ambiguous responsibilitiy. In an individual decision, it’s clear who is accountable for the final outcome. In group decision, the responsibility of any single members is diluted.
There were some decision making errors the team made: * Anchoring. Many group members gave disproportionate weight to the first information they receive. Be sure to pursue other lines of thinking, even