Consensus building/consensus

"Consensus-building" process (vs. “process for making decisions”): True consensus is nice but elusive. "Consensus", in fact, is simply the Latin equivalent of the Greek sympátheia, “sympathy”: It entails a real harmony of feeling and purpose— lovely to imagine, but hard to accomplish in your ordinary, workaday “action plan.” What you want is a way of settling the inevitable disagreements. The result may be some set of parliamentary rules, perhaps. But true consensus? Not likely.