6 Quotes by Marcia W. Blenko

It’s crucial for the people who will live with the new system to help design it.

Very often, a good decision executed quickly beats a brilliant decision implemented slowly or poorly.

If managers suddenly realize that they’re spending less time sitting through meetings wondering why they are there, that’s an early signal that companies have become better at making decisions. When meetings start with a common understanding about who is responsible for providing valuable input and who has the D, an organization’s decision-making metabolism will get a boost.

Consensus is a worthy goal, but as a decision-making standard, it can be an obstacle to action or a recipe for lowest-common-denominator compromise. A more practical objective is to get everyone involved to buy in to the decision.

seeking consensus, is often an obstacle to action.

know where the bottlenecks are and who’s empowered to break through them