We hate meetings, but we want our voices to be heard. Communication rarely feels done because there is often one more point to make, or one more person to make it to. Communication must be an integral part of the decision-making process. I risk saying that without effective communication, there are few good decisions.
Good decisions require discussion and debate beforehand and dissemination of information afterwards.
No matter how well informed our choices are, they fail without support from the community. Obviously, they also fail if nobody knows about them. What we have learned is that communication is not a two-way process. This may seem obvious, but try listing all of the people and groups that should have a say about an important decision in your organization. It is staggering.