Richard P Grant | Crowdsourcing decision-making lands you in trouble

Ever wonder why committees make bad decisions? Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could doWe’ve all been there.You’re sitting around the table with a bunch of colleagues (or rugby club committee/church flower arranging group/Shadow Cabinet, as appropriate), discussing how to save the company (stop losing home games/cure the vicar’s hay fever/get elected) when you suddenly have an idea that will triple profits (etc.), and cure cancer, eliminate unemplo