Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Votes: 4
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. Votes: 3
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink. Votes: 2
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. Votes: 2
Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. Votes: 2
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on. Votes: 2
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. Votes: 2
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. Votes: 2
I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink. Votes: 2
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement. Votes: 2
Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out. Votes: 2
...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 you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute. Votes: 2
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand. Votes: 2
I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink. Votes: 0