89. How should I deal with having too many decision makers?
Although it is not entirely desirable to have a very large number of people involved with decisions, the fact is some decisions will have a lot of stakeholders. To make decisions work you will need sufficient consensus (or at least acceptance), so you must involve at least the principal people from whom you need buy-in.
Involving the Right People
For some decisions there will be one autocratic decision maker. For others you may seek unanimity from a team of collaborators. For most decisions, though, you will deal with some variation in between these two extremes. Although having a single person dictate all decisions is fast, and in emergencies may be necessary, for project decision making ...
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