A well-meaning team of people can sometimes make horrible…

“None of us is as dumb as all of us. It means that when you get a group of people together to make a…

— Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

“The more amiability and esprit de corps among the members of a policy-making in-group, the greater is the danger that independent critical thinking will…

— Anonymous

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

— Chance the Rapper

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect,…

— Charlie Brooker

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to…

— Jon Lovett

“Groupthink seems like a safe path. But no inventor/researcher finds what he seeks there”

— Henk Mutsaers

“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is…

— Henrik Ibsen

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which…

— Susan Cain

...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If…

— Susan Cain

“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.”

— Colin M. McGroarty

“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception”

— Steven Pinker

Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees…

— Steve Pavlina

“Alice is fictional. This isn't.”

— Jess C. Scott

“Groups have powerful self-reinforcing mechanisms at work. These can lead to group polarization—a tendency for members of the group to end up in a…

— James Montier

“Everybody goes where everybody goes.”

— Thomas Vato