I’ve used this analogy before but people hate it. on internal projects at my firm everyone wants everyone else to have an equal voice out of guilt. The meetings and navel gazing never stop and the work becomes working on the process and never actually delivering on the need.

With client projects it’s different, you have a budget and deadline. Miss it or screw up on the way and the client fires you and hires your competitor. My client delivery teams are a much harsher environment but roles and responsibility for decisions are very clear and everyone’s job is at stake so it gets taken pretty seriously. There’s no room or time for consensus building, the flip side being owning a bad decision means working somewhere else.