Consensus Goal Groupthink Uncertainty 
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2017
In my view, the #1 killer element is groupthink. That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. Ensure your team consensus is real, rather than imagined, by regularly reflecting on the values that underpin your declared purpose. What to do now?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2016
Setting goals (another tool) is aspirational, but making decisions actually drives action. For comparison, goal-setting best practices helped managers achieve expected results only 30% of the time.) Most business decisions are collaborative, which mean groupthink and consensus work to compound our individual biases.
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