Michael is a co-founder and CEO of SchellingPoint, the foremost applied research organization in group decision-making and strategic collaboration. As head of research, Michael manages the largest digital database of collaborative actions. The decision-making of several hundred groups, and growing, covers business, government, academia, and not-for-profit, from individual team subjects to EU policy development and global healthcare. The database comprises over 110,000 stakeholders - over 30,000 in executive and management roles - covering strategy, transformation, policy, process, programs, innovation, mergers, JVs, customer/supplier relationships. Decisions range from greenfield goal setting to brownfield major problem-solving.
Michael has taught insights and methods from the research at leading business schools since 2008. SchellingPoint data is referenced in books and conference keynotes on collaboration and group decision-making. The insights are used to develop new collaboration concepts, methods, and tools to enable groups to make better decisions rapidly.
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Michael Taylor reference on the role of strong group decision-making in organizational performance.
(People often struggle to make good group decisions because) "the self-interested gain is short-term and tangible, but the collective gain is long-term and intangible." (Published)
"Collaboration starts the first time two people disagree." (Not yet published)