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Every decade or so, the term groupthink enters the public consciousness when a highly visible failure leaves people pondering how a group of competent people could have made such a disastrous decision ...

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon born of our innate desire to conform with others. First coined in 1972, the term specifically refers to the tendency for a group to make bad or poorly ...

When organizations need to solve a problem, they often create a task force, selection panel, or steering/advisory committee. These groups are tasked with developing consensus around new ideas, such as ...

When you think about team dynamics and workplace productivity, it’s easy to get trapped in the idea that alignment in thinking is the best path forward; after all, the mindset unity offered by ...

Most of us are well aware that groupthink—the phenomenon in which decision-making is ruled by the ease of conformity—is bad for business. When our workplace falls into groupthink, we become complacent ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about critical thinking in education. When I need to make a big decision at work, I often turn to team members for help.

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon born of our innate desire to conform with others. First coined in 1972, the term specifically refers to the tendency for a group to make bad or poorly ...