HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve ever agreed to a decision at work even when you believe it to be the worst move your company could make, you need to learn how to avoid groupthink. Psychology Today suggests that the term was first defined by Yale psychologist Irving Janis in a 1971 issue of the magazine. Image credit – Freepik What is Groupthink?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It’s all part of a plan for President Kennedy to make the most critical decision in his life—how to respond in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yale psychologist Irving Janis used the debacle to coin the term “groupthink,” which refers to a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Janis Christie/Getty Images. Before we formally submitted the handoff protocol to the unit’s policy management system, we evaluated the influence of the new protocol on patient recovery. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

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