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 ...

There’s a slippery slope in the climb toward social acceptance. Why do people do what they do to be part of something, not just in college environments but in foreign policy war rooms, in workplaces, ...

ALBANY — We all want to be part of the crowd. We want to belong. From an ethics perspective, conforming to group norms can be good but it can also be very bad. Groupthink is defined as the practice of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Have you ever seen a business take an action that made you wonder, “What were they thinking?” Your second thought might be, ...

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 ...

William H. Whyte, author of the classic sociological commentary "The Organization Man," coined the term groupthink in a 1952 article that appeared in Fortune magazine in reference to the culture of ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Entrepreneurs and team leaders often devote significant energy into coordinating efforts and fostering a common organizational culture.

The concept of "groupthink," first identified by Irving Janis, refers to the phenomenon in which group members quickly align on certain decisions without critically evaluating or suppressing ...

Insular cultures produce groupthink, don’t evolve as fast as others, and thus pose an existential threat to organizations. Instead, think and lead from the outside-in to ensure your culture and ...