{"id":198,"date":"2006-07-12T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:33","slug":"group-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/07\/group-decision-making","title":{"rendered":"Subjective Group Decision Making and Carpeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rightinline\" style=\"width: 250px; float: right; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/carpet_update.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:block; margin-bottom: 5px\" \/>Pink Comic Sans. A perfect indication of how this process has gone so far.<\/span>I live in a condo building with four floors and 40 units.  The time has come to replace the carpet in the hallways and all common areas.  It is a pretty big job that will cost $20,000 or so and obviously affects everybody&#8217;s living experience.  It is slightly complicated by the fact that the walls are a light mauve and the current carpet is a dark mauve and painting the walls is not part of this project.<\/p>\n<p>Certain things have happened already in the selection\/replacement process which, in my opinion, have been an unmitigated disaster.  So without revealing the details of the situation, I&#8217;d like to ask this question:<\/p>\n<p>If you were either the president or a member of a condo board, what exact process would you undertake to select new carpeting?  It can be one sentence or one paragraph.  Dictatorial or democratic.  Or anything in between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a condo building with four floors and 40 units.  The time has come to replace the carpet in the hallways and all common areas.  It is a pretty big job that will cost $20,000 or so and obviously affects everybody&#8217;s living experience.  It is slightly complicated by the fact that the walls are a light mauve and the current carpet is a dark mauve and painting the walls is not part of this project. Certain things have happened already in the selection\/replacement process which, in my opinion, have been an unmitigated disaster.  So without revealing the details of the situation, I&#8217;d like to ask this question:  If you were either the president or a member of a condo board, what exact process would you undertake to select new carpeting?  It can be one sentence or one paragraph.  Dictatorial or democratic.  Or anything in between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}