Consultation is the first requirement for reaching the right decision.
Decisions upon a matter reached without due reflection and without properly consulting others usually come to nothing. Those individuals who are sufficient to themselves, disconnected from others and unconcerned with their opinions, even if they happen to be geniuses, are at considerable risk of error compared to those who offer and receive opinions in consultation. Many a task, undertaken without due preparation and without thinking through all the consequences and ramifications, apart from making little progress, has brought discredit upon those who undertook it. It is surely true that whoever sets about a piece of work on a whim, and according to how it occurs to him to do it, will suffer the disappointment of going down many roundabout or misleading roads. Insensitive, thoughtless individuals, so complacent about their own knowledge or competence in an affair that they will intimidate others into accepting their opinions, are always unbearable to those who must work with them.