Harvard Business Essentials, Decision Making

ideas of a great many people while keeping the decision group to a

manageable size. It is important to balance the size of the group with

the importance or difficulty of implementing a decision.

Give Some Thought to the Setting

To help your group generate creative solutions and evaluate them

critically, choose diverse settings for their meetings. Such settings

might include conference rooms that you don’t typically work in,

off-site locations, or a familiar location with the furniture rearranged

to facilitate face-to-face discussion. When people are removed from

traditional settings, such as a boardroom or a supervisor’s office, they

tend to speak more ...