where good ideas go to get a chairperson, a follow-up meeting, and a slow death.
means a group of people assembled to make a decision collectively, so no single person has to own the outcome.
from from french comettre, to entrust — first used in english parliamentary procedure in the 1400s to describe delegating a task to a smaller subset of a larger body, ironically to make things faster.
un security council — 15 nations, 5 permanent vetoes, decades of deadlock on major crises
us congressional committees — over 200 committees and subcommittees process nearly every bill first
nobel prize committee — swedish academy panel of 18 decides literature's biggest prize yearly
hoa boards — volunteer neighborhood panels famous for fining paint colors and mailbox height