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... effect of making for a speedy consensus on an acceptable , or at least harmless , solution , which can avoid wasting the precious time of high - level executives . Longley and Pruitt agree with my main point , however , that groupthink ...
... effect of making for a speedy consensus on an acceptable , or at least harmless , solution , which can avoid wasting the precious time of high - level executives . Longley and Pruitt agree with my main point , however , that groupthink ...
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... effect relationships that will have a high degree of external validity . If the field experiments as well as the laboratory experiments and comparative case studies of historic decisions all point to the same general conclusion when we ...
... effect relationships that will have a high degree of external validity . If the field experiments as well as the laboratory experiments and comparative case studies of historic decisions all point to the same general conclusion when we ...
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... effect would also be expected for symptoms of groupthink , such that the effect of lack of norms requiring methodical procedures might have little or no effect on the eight symptoms ( listed in box C in Figure 10-1 ) when the decision ...
... effect would also be expected for symptoms of groupthink , such that the effect of lack of norms requiring methodical procedures might have little or no effect on the eight symptoms ( listed in box C in Figure 10-1 ) when the decision ...
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Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
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