The saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" is well-known. It means that the more people involved in a task, the poorer the outcome. I find this expression holds true in the world of business where ...

The V-22 has long gotten a bad rap. As soon as reports of a fatal accident involving an Osprey off the coast of Japan hit the internet last fall, the critics pounced, and a chorus of uninformed ...

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 ...

Groupthink has been blamed for major historical disasters, but studies show there may be some benefit to it. Social scientists have noticed an interesting trend in the last few decades. Groupthink is ...

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 ...

Too many companies are stuck trying to replicate old-school brainstorming models in a remote world. The truth is, while traditional "groupthink" brainstorming was flawed in the boardroom, it kills ...

It’s easy to see “groupthink” in the world today and to recognise that it is getting worse rather than better. It’s harder to acknowledge it or counter it in ourselves. But take a second and ask ...

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee is housed here in Harumi Triton Square, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. (Mainichi/Hiroshi Maruyama) It is looking like the new president of the Tokyo ...