Advice on Building Consensus

Building consensus is done the same way in a normal corporation or a family business or in anything. Building consensus is about listening to each other, it’s about letting each member of the family, in that instance, or of an entity, a group, an organization express it but asking them to substantiate it, and then making a decision which may not be the answer some people want, but at least you have listened to them. At least, they know why. So, that is what is building consensus. Building a consensus is not compromising. Listening to all of them and making a decision which meets, let’s say, the request of most of them. But by definition, you are not going to have consensus. Or, if you want to do it by consensus, you are going to weaken the family organization.