Why do some easy things take groups of people so long to do? This question has perplexed me for years. While I wait for friends deciding where they’d like to eat, I often wish we could pick a restaurant at random. Toss a coin, cut through the committee, and put us out of our misery. But I am not talking about complicated decisions, like “where should we go for dinner?”. I am talking about things like marshalling a group after a decision has already been made. Simple things. Things like ...