Groupthink rarely looks like pressure. It looks like momentum: a confident presentation, a forecast pointing up and to the right, and a table of smart, senior people already nodding. This is the group psychology of how a room approves a decision none of its members would have chosen alone.
Sometimes the doubters stay quiet because silence is cheaper than objecting. Sometimes it’s stranger: everyone privately doubts, misreads everyone else’s nodding, and goes along. That second one is the Abilene paradox. In this episode: why consensus feels like proof, two cheap practices that surface doubt before it costs you (the pre-mortem and a named devil’s advocate), and the one test that tells you whether a decision meeting is real or ceremony.
From Convenient Truths: The Stories You Tell Yourself: the3minutementor.com/books/
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