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Decision-Making Strategies
It is important to establish a decision-making protocol to enable coordination among partners. A clearly defined protocol will help to minimize inefficiency and conflict, and will maximize continuity and agreement.
Different decision-making styles may be used for different situations, depending on who the decision may impact, how much time is allotted, and whose support is needed. Try to anticipate the kinds of decisions your collaboration will be making. Then, create a protocol clearly defining what style of decision-making will be used for each decision type.
For example, your protocol may call for consensus decisions, in which everyone must agree before the decision is made, or democratic decisions, which are settled by vote and require that the minority voters still support the decision. Autonomous decisions may also be useful in situations where the decision does not impact others or needs only the decision-maker to implement it.
