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Four Types of Meetings that Lead to Effective Organizations

CO2

These biases may stem from stress, the input of a particular expert, or perhaps the frequency and recency of others’ opinions. They ought not to share too much stakeholder analysis at the meeting, however.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Barrick Gold founder and chair Peter Munk stressed that in today’s environment, “The single most critical factor in growing a mining company is a social consensus — a license to mine.” Too often, these tasks are pushed off to consultants.