The more managers sitting in the room with strong opinions and good arguments, the more likely you are to come up with an uninspired compromise that makes everyone happy, but is almost always the most conservative path. Your job as a CEO is to make the right decision, not the most popular decision.
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This definitely hints at what Roger Martin calls out as the problem in The Opposable Mind.