“Groupthink seems like a safe path. But no inventor/researcher finds what he seeks there” — Henk Mutsaers Copy Share Image
“Groupthink. It’s called groupthink. And there is no need for a surrogate when we talk one to the other.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“The Engineer glanced at the Cutter and Driver, who sat quietly, hesitant to weigh in despite sharing some of his concerns.” — Aaron Gilbee Copy Share Image
“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.” — Colin M. McGroarty Copy Share Image
“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“An overemphasis on teamwork and consensus can cause a kind of mental lethargy. If you subordinate your own expectations to the expectations… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
“Those who speak of their anger, their mistrust, or their dislike of certain groups tend not to see any contradiction in this… — Dr Val Thomas Copy Share Image
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to,… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“As long as we measure a person's psychological health by the degree to which he or she accepts social conventions, we will… — Arno Gruen Copy Share Image
Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“groupthink occurs when people “are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group,” and their “strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The more amiability and esprit de corps among the members of a policy-making in-group, the greater is the danger that independent critical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Telling people that they are racist—on the basis of immutable characteristics, using incomprehensible definitions that they may not know or understand—then claiming… — Dr Val Thomas Copy Share Image
“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“The thing about Mia's logic was that it was hard to argue with without sounding like the bad guy. Every objection had… — Patrick Riot Copy Share Image
“None of us is as dumb as all of us. It means that when you get a group of people together to… — Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
“Most of you,' he went on, 'already know how I have been able to limit the area of investigation in a first… — René Daumal Copy Share Image
“Groups have powerful self-reinforcing mechanisms at work. These can lead to group polarization—a tendency for members of the group to end up… — James Montier Copy Share Image
“There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31” — Peter H. Johnston Copy Share Image
“A well-meaning team of people can sometimes make horrible decisions that no single individual would make. Groupthink, and an unwillingness to disagree… — Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy is unnecessary, when everyone thinks the same. ― George Draffan, via: Derrick Jensen - Endgame, Volume 1” — George Draffan Copy Share Image
