{"id":239,"date":"2006-11-04T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/239\/consensus-committees-paralysis-digraphs"},"modified":"2013-07-10T00:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:16:45","slug":"consensus-committees-paralysis-digraphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/consensus-committees-paralysis-digraphs\/239\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus, Committees, Paralysis, &#038; Digraphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>If your organization leans more towards Consensus, rather than leadership actually providing, well, leadership from the top-down, then you&#8217;ve probably experienced the scenario where nobody can agree and so nobody makes a decision.\u00a0 I call this state-of-affairs an organizational paralysis. True, there&#8217;s something to be said for the executives that allow management to make business decisions &#8212; personally, I prefer a lot of autonomy to get things done &#8212; but, in some organizations, poor leadership leads to no decisions, no consensus, and nothing worthwhile gets done.<\/p>\n<p>If your organization is consensus-based and you often find yourself in an organizational paralysis, then Digraphing might be for you.<\/p>\n<h2>Digraphs<\/h2>\n<p>Digraphing is a simple prioritization process based on reducing the decision process to (3) choices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Item A is more important than B<\/li>\n<li>Item A is less important than B<\/li>\n<li>Item A and B are equally important<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the steps to creating a Digraph:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write down your choices in an octagonal shape. It might be helpful also to write your choices down on sticky-notes and form the octagonal shape.\u00a0 <strong>Note<\/strong>: Do not have too many choices, otherwise this excercise could take very, very long.<\/li>\n<li>Then, as a group, pit each choice against the other. Ask person 1 &#8220;A or B&#8221;, and then draw an Arrow into her answer. Do this excercise for all the possible combinations and for each person in the group.<\/li>\n<li>Sum the number of inbound arrows and sort the items from highest to lowest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is a visual representation of a Digraph:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"shmula.com, digraph\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/106\/288408473_0166db25bf_o.jpg\" alt=\"shmula.com, digraph\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"shmula.com, kumbaya management\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1\/187616859_52775858f9_m.jpg\" alt=\"shmula.com, kumbaya management\" align=\"right\" \/>In the example above, Item B had the most inbound arrows, which represents the collective consensus of the group that Item B is highest in priority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Note on Kumbaya Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#120by240left-->I have spoken about <a title=\"shmula.com, kumbaya management\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/cumbaya-management-essentials\/148\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kumbaya Management<\/a> before. Decision, Innovation, and pretty much a lot of other things &#8212; done by committee &#8212; do not result in a breakthrough or innovative outcome. Instead, you end up with a mediocre outcome quasi-agreed to by the group. Digraphing can solve the Kumbaya problem, if the choices are good. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll have decision and prioritization made on poor choices. Use wisdom, but be decisive in your groups. If there isn&#8217;t a command-and-control or even basic leadership in your organization, then it&#8217;s up to you to make the decisions that your executives aren&#8217;t either willing or capable of making. digraphing can help you prioritize the choices into small, workable, action items.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your organization leans more towards Consensus, rather than leadership actually providing, well, leadership from the top-down, then you&#8217;ve probably experienced the scenario where nobody can agree and so nobody makes a decision.\u00a0 I call this state-of-affairs an organizational paralysis. 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