Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes |
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... decision - making . Nor do I expect that every defective decision , whether arising from groupthink or from other causes , will produce a fiasco . Defective decisions based on misinformation and poor judgment sometimes lead to ...
... decision - making . Nor do I expect that every defective decision , whether arising from groupthink or from other causes , will produce a fiasco . Defective decisions based on misinformation and poor judgment sometimes lead to ...
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... decision to resort to coercive action well warranted by the circumstances . Whether the President was right or wrong in setting up his objective is not relevant to a discussion of group decision - making . What is relevant is the fact ...
... decision to resort to coercive action well warranted by the circumstances . Whether the President was right or wrong in setting up his objective is not relevant to a discussion of group decision - making . What is relevant is the fact ...
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... decision - making group . There are , in addition , as Leon Mann and I point out in our book Deci- sion Making , [ various ] flaws and limitations in human information processing , such as the propensity of decision makers to be ...
... decision - making group . There are , in addition , as Leon Mann and I point out in our book Deci- sion Making , [ various ] flaws and limitations in human information processing , such as the propensity of decision makers to be ...
Contents
Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
Copyright | |
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