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Old Posted Sep 20, 2018, 5:32 PM
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Originally Posted by niwell View Post
I'm not sure you can really compare a city council to a board of directors - the functions of both entities and responsibilities of individual members is completely different.
I wasn't really comparing per se, my angle was much more generic than that: 47 unaffiliated humans in the same room is too large a number for that group to be doing a good job at running/managing whatever it is they're asked to run/manage. (There are parallels with a board of directors, but that's only because a board of directors also happens to be a bunch of humans in a room who have to take decisions together.)

My social circle, we've organically noticed this over the years - our threshold for "okay, this isn't going anywhere, let's delegate the plan-making to this subgroup and we'll all go with whatever they decide" is MUCH lower than 47.
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