> long and slow consensus building that weighs existing stakeholder's opinions heavily vs doing "the right thing" from the outset.

How do you know what "the right thing" is at the outset without talking to the stakeholders?

I'm dealing with someone's "the right thing" that is actually wrong and dumb. They didn't ask us before rolling out the new "standard."

Some people are very confident in their understanding of a problem! Others will discount the validity of the stakeholders involved having good judgement.

I think most people have at least one issue where they discount one of the stakeholder's judgement, it's all fairly contextual. But hey, if you're the CEO of some company you have the ability to act on that discounting.