Steering committee
We do not find it remarkable that, in a century and a half of automotive technology, the drafters of the Highway Code have never found the space to sanction the operation of a vehicle by consensus. A car is more likely - these days, far more likely - to drive itself than been driven by a committee.
Yet thousands upon thousands of well-intentioned employees spend their lives on, subject to or being vigorously propelled about the confines of their employer's premises like tiny passengers in a deflating balloon, at the mercy of a steering committee. Usually several.
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