She praised the HP Way to the ranks but felt that it had decayed into consensus management.

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This consensus-based management style leads to an internal "village-like" way of doing things, usually under a closed-door policy.

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The old consensus-building management system helped employers keep unions on side when costs needed to be held down.

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Ideally, the kind of stock you want to hold is one with no definitive consensus, where management talks in riddles.

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In 2010, Prince Charles launched the International Sustainability Unit (ISU), a charity focused on monitoring and facilitating consensus on environmental management issues.

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Nissan's consensus-driven management style and corporate structure may have been acceptable in the booming '80s, but they don't work well when drastic decisions have to be made quickly.

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There is growing evidence and consensus that the management of coastal Blue Carbon ecosystems, through avoided emissions, conservation, restoration and sustainable use has strong potential as a transformational tool in effective global natural carbon management.

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And while most China investors are far from overly bullish on China, nor subscribe to any saintly view of its economic management, the prevailing consensus among portfolio managers who continue to put money to work in China is this: China may be down, but it is not out.

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Not really: modern management theory suggests that a team consensus is better than a brutal voting system.

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Although Waste Management reported profit of 63 cents a year ago, the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 60 cents.

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Since people often say one thing and do another, we look instead at the consensus of measurable actions sales, employee retention, vendor terms, risk management, and other outcomes of corporate governance as indicators of reputational strength and value.

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The Fed transcript shows a culture of collegiality and deference to senior management that did not encourage mavericks to offer scenarios that diverged from the institutional consensus.

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