You are Camille Ferrand, chief operating officer for eleven weeks. The board has asked you to consolidate three plants into two and wants the decision before the European works council meets, six weeks from now.
Nobody disputes that there is surplus capacity. What is at stake is how the decision gets made: who gets a say, on what, and what they are promised in return for speaking.
You decide how to run an unpopular decision when people will judge the process long before they judge the outcome.
The decision
How should Camille run the consolidation decision?
A — Decide with the exec team and explain it well
B — Open a consultation and let each plant argue to survive
C — Open the criteria, not the verdict
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