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Analysis on risk, pressure, and decision-making across systems.

The CORE Series brings together analyses on risk, pressure, and decision-making across sectors. Each piece focuses on how issues emerge, how signals are missed or misread, and why outcomes are often shaped well before they’re publicly visible.

The goal is simple: surface patterns early, clarify what matters, and create space for better judgment before decisions are forced.

The Illusion of Consensus
CORE series, decision making, Risk + Response, leadership + governance, public affairs Shawn Howard CORE series, decision making, Risk + Response, leadership + governance, public affairs Shawn Howard

The Illusion of Consensus

Consensus is one of the most persuasive tools in decision-making — but in a post-fact environment, it’s often manufactured. By amplifying some voices, sidelining others, and framing silence as agreement, leaders can be sold a unity that doesn’t exist. Before acting on “broad support,” ask: Who’s missing from the room, and who benefits from the illusion?

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