A company was undergoing an office redesign.
The manager in charge set up four test design sites
and then had employees vote on it.
When he announced the decision,
he received a wave of complaints.
He asked me why this process didn’t work.
My reply was “it did work.”
A tough part of being a decision maker is
that not everyone will be happy with the decision,
not matter how its made.
You can minimize the negativity but
not eliminate it completely.