Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes |
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... advisers with the blunt end of a pencil , Harry Truman did his nudging with a cattle prod . Of course , Truman was far from a dictatorial or authoritarian leader . Throughout his seven years in the White House , he sought to base his ...
... advisers with the blunt end of a pencil , Harry Truman did his nudging with a cattle prod . Of course , Truman was far from a dictatorial or authoritarian leader . Throughout his seven years in the White House , he sought to base his ...
Page 69
... advisers to adopt the position he favored , it might be argued that the group's failure to examine alternatives and ... advisers was a product of group processes rather than exclusively a matter of sycophantic yielding to the President's ...
... advisers to adopt the position he favored , it might be argued that the group's failure to examine alternatives and ... advisers was a product of group processes rather than exclusively a matter of sycophantic yielding to the President's ...
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... advisers As the various warnings were received , each decision by the naval com- mand at Hawaii was made after considerable discussion in formal confer- ences and informal conversations , which Admiral Kimmel regularly con- ducted with ...
... advisers As the various warnings were received , each decision by the naval com- mand at Hawaii was made after considerable discussion in formal confer- ences and informal conversations , which Admiral Kimmel regularly con- ducted with ...
Contents
Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
Copyright | |
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