The EU's enlargement has also made consensus-building more difficult, multiplying the national rivalries and tensions.
This process invariably throws up a consensus-building prime minister acceptable to a wide cross-section of parties.
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Indian politics rewards consensus-building centrists, not polarizing leaders who repel and attract voters in equal measure.
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His style is consensus-building, his decision-making less unilateral and impetuous than Kan or, particularly, Hatoyama.
The remaining two months of the French EU presidency will test how lasting are Mr Sarkozy's consensus-building powers.
Which C-level executive owns IG is less important than the leadership and consensus-building qualities she or he possesses.
The old consensus-building management system helped employers keep unions on side when costs needed to be held down.
His success was due partly to his grasp of detail, partly to his skill at consensus-building among competing groups.
In fact, the rest of Somalia and indeed Africa have a lot to learn from the consensus-building techniques employed by Somaliland.
After axing Mr. Woodford, senior Olympus executives explained that the Briton did not understand the Japanese business culture and the value of respect and consensus-building.
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The big-city mayors offer an intriguing contrast in styles, ranging from the consensus-building approach of Los Angeles' Tom Bradley to the confrontational politics of Gary's Hatcher.
The announcement surprised his own cabinet ministers, who were notified of the decision only hours beforehand, and shocked a political system in which consensus-building skill is prized.
Analysts say they both have exercised strong consensus-building skills that could prove invaluable in a divided Supreme Court that has fractured along unpredictable ideological lines in recent years.
Instead America is promoting a more informal consensus-building approach.
More than 3, 000 scientists from 177 institutes in 38 countries work on the ATLAS experiment, as he puts it: "we work by discussions and consensus-building - people need to agree with and support the experiment's goals".
Other reports cover three meetings of the Consultative Forum, established to serve as a medium of interfacing and consensus-building between the United Nations organizations and agencies and other stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector.
With a more open, consensus -building, and collegial approach to leading, women leaders create environments where information is shared more freely, collaboration and teamwork are honored, and flexibility along with risk-taking create new opportunities for success.
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Through three decades of summits, conferences, common initiatives and consensus-building, the organization has reduced tensions among Southeast Asian nations and elevated the nine as a group to an enviable position of influence in the continent, if not the world.
While the voting for the pope is billed as secret, with each cardinal guided only by his faith in God, the process is ultimately a closed-door exercise in consensus-building that cements fidelity to the Church's new leader among the inner circle.
That's what I've been doing -- building that consensus vote by vote, working to bring people together, to get my colleagues from across the aisle to join our cause.
When looking at the answers, the team quickly realized that the previous companies had very different decision-making cultures (one was a slow process of building consensus, and the other used open, time-bound debate with final decisions made by the CEO).
Rather than use his party's parliamentary numbers to push through reform, Mr Yudhoyono has stuck with a timid consensus style, building a bigger, weaker six-party coalition than he needs.
Decision-making on a nonprofit board requires building consensus, a very different skill from influencing someone who reports to you.
Americans could begin to know themselves as active participants in building a new bipartisan consensus around transformative possibility instead of ever-changing but ever-present fear.
Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.
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There is no formal contract for the land, but rather "consensus building, " he says, that results in a verbal go-ahead from the collective parties.
We hope that as Venezuelans mourn the passing of President Chavez and recall his positive legacies -- especially the gains made for the poor and vulnerable -- the political leaders will move the country forward by building a new consensus that ensures equal opportunities for all Venezuelans to participate in every aspect of national life.
Another survey revealed that 78 percent of managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings below consensus expectations, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value.
When asked about their perception of female leaders they were described as: multi-tasking, emotional, empathetic, strong, intuitive, compassionate, relationship building, verbal, consensus building, collaborative and gossipy.
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