When Everyone Agrees Too Quickly

Complex situations produce disagreement. When a room converges quickly on a complex question, something has usually been avoided rather than resolved.

The avoidance is often social: a cost nobody wants to be the one to name, a person whose role cannot be discussed openly, a scenario that would reopen a decision already announced.

Rapid agreement should therefore be examined with the same care as deadlock. The question is simple: what would we have to discuss if we did not agree?

The answer to that question is usually the real subject of the meeting.