The results are in. The votes have been counted. The people have spoken.
No complaints from me, really.
Relatedly, I just finished reading Crucial Conversations upon recommendation of Mark Jacobs. What a great read. Reminds me of a lot of Thom Walters' wisdom around stepping into 'creative tension.'
Anyway, the book ends with four methods of decision making: One person decides, one person decides after consulting with all or key stakeholders, consensus, and voting.
Each method has its advantages/disadvantages. Voting involves everyone and it's efficient, but by its nature there are winners and losers.
In the end, I still would've preferred the second method of decision making - basically what I wrote about in the previous blawg post - one person or a smaller group making a decision based on a deep listening to people's input, rather than just straight numbers.
Still, this was a cool exercise, and a pretty neat and unusual story: A major league sports team creating a billboard featuring fans AND letting the fans decide who was featured - not to mention the unexpected make up of the final group: a grandma, a guy in a wheelchair, a dad with a baby carrier and a ballerina in soccer cleats.
