Quotes about Consensus

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.

And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’

The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

I urge Euodia and Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord.

there cannot be alignment deeper in the organization, even when employees want to cooperate, if the leaders at the top aren't in lockstep with one another