Duke: The Goal of Group Meetings Should Be Informing, Not Consensus
Annie Duke · Annie Duke – How to Decide (Capital Allocators, EP.156) · Sep 14, 2020 · at 1:16:28
Cognitive psychologist and author Annie Duke explains to Ted Seides why investment committees should prioritize surfacing diverse perspectives over reaching consensus.
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“The goal of a really good group meeting is not to agree. And we think that the goal is agreement. We think that everybody has to walk out of that room on the same page. The goal of a great group meeting, rather, should be to inform, which is very different. So it should be okay that you allow that divergence of opinion to live, to stay, because it's about informing the group, not agreeing.”
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