# What do you think of the Board Agreement?

**URL:** <https://discuss.opensource.org/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-board-agreement/856>\
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**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.opensource.org/t/what-do-you-think-of-the-board-agreement/856 "2025-03-03T10:33:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![McCoy\_Smith](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/discuss.opensource.org/mccoy_smith/32/439_2.png) [@McCoy\_Smith](https://discuss.opensource.org/u/McCoy_Smith)\
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“Disagree and Commit” is a pretty common standard in the corporate world, and ensures robust discussion before a decision but commitment to the decision after:

> **[Disagree and commit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disagree_and_commit)**
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> Disagree and commit is a management principle that individuals are allowed to disagree while a decision is being made, but that once a decision has been made, everybody must commit to implementing the decision. Disagree and commit is a method of avoiding the consensus trap, in which the lack of consensus leads to inaction.
> Scott McNealy used the phrase as early as some time between 1983 and 1991, as part of the line "Agree and commit, disagree and commit, or get out of the way".: 39 
> The conce...

[FWIW I used to work for a company where it was a company value – and may have originated within that company]

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