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Groupthink

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Name: Groupthink

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Nigel Farage

Politics needs mavericks, not just the same old chumocracy and groupthink | Jenni Russell

That Margaret Hodge and Nigel Farage are arousing passions shows how sick we are of the professional political class Suddenly there are new faces on our television screens, and new, agitated, indignant voices on the airwaves. Some are old or plummy-toned, ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 20 2013]

Entities: Margaret Hodge, Nigel Farage, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

1001 Chinese Tales: Jaywalkers laugh in the face of new traffic fines

Illustration: Peter C. Espina/GTChinese people aren't known for their respect for rules of the road. Drunk driving, drag racing, and jaywalking all plague city streets. The latest astounding fashion: prepaying fines.According to a recent media report, ... [Published Global Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Police Officer, China, Groupthink

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

CTA earns a D-minus for failed passenger communication after Red Line derailment

(This is a guest post by longtime CTA Tattler reader and commenter C C Writer.)The one good thing to come out of Thursday's transit fiasco is that I had plenty of time to compose a rant in my head. (A southbound Red Line train derailed near Armitage. ... [Published Chicago Now - May 11 2013]

Entities: Groupthink

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Special report: Patient centered advocacy - avoiding scandals like Mid Staffs and Winterbourne

10 May 2013Poor decisions can result from clever people when stronger voices overwhelm group discussions and this can been seen in health and social care, writes Kate Mercer. Advocacy, listening to clients and promoting person centred practice is needed, ... [Published Public Service - May 10 2013]

Entities: Groupthink, Mercer, Irving Janis, Advocate

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

5 Tips to Kick-Start Your Weight Loss

With the warm weather here and not being able to hide behind layers of clothes without dying of heat exhaustion, people everywhere are in high gear towards getting their bodies beach ready. Getting started is the hardest part of weight loss, hands-down. ... [Published Brookfield Patch - May 09 2013]

Entities: Weight Loss, Calorie, Dieting, Groupthink, Fitness

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

CAPITAL LETTERS, affectedly boisterous sex, little girl voice: internet feminists all write the same. This is a problem

The perils of Groupthink - 's "Irrational Animals" column.I’d call myself a feminist, so I’m happy to note that feminist commentary, at least online, is becoming fairly easy to spot. You don’t need to read the arguments, you can just scan for SUDDEN OUTBURSTS ... [Published New Statesman - May 09 2013]

Entities: Feminism, Rape, Sex, Groupthink

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Enron Corp

Four ways constructive conflict can boost corporate unity

It might seem counterintuitive, but formal processes are not a panacea for good governance. Post-mortems of Enron and WorldCom, or closer to home Centro, reinforce that these companies failed despite entrenched controls.What leaders can learn from these ... [Published Women's Agenda - May 06 2013]

Entities: Enron Corp, Groupthink, Daniel Kahneman, Fraud

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

OPINION: Vox Clamantis: Lowest Common Denominator

To the Editor:In yesterday’s paper, women’s and gender studies chair Ivy Schweitzer made comments about the “dark side” of Greek life at Dartmouth ( “After protest, Dartmouth community members look forward,” May 1). She blamed groupthink for reducing ... [Published Dartmouth College The Dartmouth - May 02 2013]

Entities: Groupthink, Gender Studies, protest

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Disagreement is not disloyalty

Encouraging constructive conflict and allowing dissent can result in corporate cohesion.It might seem counterintuitive, but formal processes are not a panacea for good governance. Post-mortems of Enron and WorldCom, or closer to home Centro, reinforce ... [Published Leading Company - May 01 2013]

Entities: Enron Corp, Groupthink, Daniel Kahneman, Fraud, Young's

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

How Cognitive Biases Derail Your Deals

A market downturn, skewed valuations, skeletons in the closet — there are hundreds of factors that can derail an otherwise perfect opportunity. While some of these disruptors are truly exogenous factors out of your control, there are other risks that ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Anchoring, Due Diligence, hypothesis, Groupthink, SKELETON

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Five Low-Tech Skills Students Will Always Need

Students, however, might be surprised at the low-tech dinosaur skills and habits that can help them getand keeptheir dream jobs. In a world of eBooks and online whiteboards, old-fashioned skills are still important to teach.On the job, low-tech sometimes ... [Published Education World - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Education, Groupthink, Creativity

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Gurteen Knowledge Letter: Issue 154 - April 2013

Why We Work: A Look at What Motivates in the Knowledge Economy http://bit.ly/11nesBh #KMThe Knowledge Management Association announces the launch of the KMA web site http://linkd.in/11g84dw #kma #kmDilbert on Small Group work http://bit.ly/15fimSb /love ... [Published Oxford Prospect - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Groupthink, complex systems, Knowledge Management, Pull

Quotes

Netizens define the Chinese way of crossing roads as "waiting until there's a group of people and crossing whether the light is green or red." Such a group, in which members rely on each other to terrify running cars and proudly march in the middle of a road, can be spontaneously formed at any...

1001 Chinese Tales: Jaywalkers laugh in the face of new traffic fines [Published Global Times - May 17 2013]

And after that I want the names of all the other people at the CTA who went along with it, when what they ought to have done is say something like "Yeah, and nothing unexpected will ever happen again, and if it does there will certainly be no need to make announcements about it! Ha-ha, thanks for the entertainment, now come back to us with a plan that makes sense, or you're fired." And all those people should have their heads dunked repeatedly in cold water and then made to pay heavy fines

CTA earns a D-minus for failed passenger communication after Red Line derailment [Published Chicago Now - May 11 2013]

...Visit his popular law/political blog, "EllisWashingtonReport.com, an essential repository dedicated to educating the next generation of young conservative intellectuals."

Blacks obsession with sports, Hollywood and acceptance [Published Global Politician - May 07 2013]

...a transit route through East Germany (one of the few official motorways that connected West Germany with West Berlin) when my father cried out, "That's the village! That's where I stood in the village pond while the Russian tanks arrived!" At the end of this particular family trip, I found myself at the grave of my maternal grandfather, Adolf von Thadden, a nobleman from Trieglaff...

A German Family's Complicated Wartime History [Published Spiegel Online - Apr 17 2013]

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Ben Acheson: Offshore Wind Farms Will Leave th... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 06 2013]
Four ways constructive conflict can boost corpo... [Published Women's Agenda - May 06 2013]
OPINION: Vox Clamantis: Lowest Common Denominator [Published Dartmouth College The Dartmouth - May 02 2013]
Mogadishu, Boston and the ‘Pavlovian Response’ [Published Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy Blogs \| The ... - May 02 2013]
Disagreement is not disloyalty [Published Leading Company - May 01 2013]
How Cognitive Biases Derail Your Deals [Published Business Insider - Apr 30 2013]
Five Low-Tech Skills Students Will Always Need [Published Education World - Apr 26 2013]
Gurteen Knowledge Letter: Issue 154 - April 2013 [Published Oxford Prospect - Apr 23 2013]
The Age of Social Trading Has Arrived [Published Live Trading News - Apr 21 2013]
Crowdfunding: Crowd Wisdom, Mob Mentality [Published Crowdfund Insider - Apr 19 2013]
GROUPTHINK: Celebrity hive mind outraged by gun... [Published Instapundit - Apr 18 2013]
A German Family's Complicated Wartime History [Published Spiegel Online - Apr 17 2013]
Memories of WWII: A German Family's Complicated... [Published Spiegel Online - Apr 17 2013]
Understanding Groupthink [Published CSC Center for Strategic Communication - Apr 08 2013]
Understanding Groupthink [Published SWJ Blog - Apr 08 2013]
Groupthink [Published UV Cavalier Daily - Apr 02 2013]
Michael Roth: Conformity Is the Enemy: From Gro... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Mar 31 2013]
Iraq Autopsy: Lessons in Groupthink [Published The Moderate Voice - Mar 28 2013]
How groupthink and denial can ruin startups [Published The Next Web - Mar 24 2013]
Groupthink, Greed, Cynicism and Crime [Published Firedoglake - Mar 24 2013]
GOP path to reinvention riddled with potholes [Published First Read - Mar 22 2013]

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Mogadishu, Boston and the ‘Pavlovian Response’ [Published Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy Blogs \| The ... - May 02 2013] Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-Dzhokhar -Boston Bombing The recent terrorist attacks that took place in Mogadishu and Boston were not just intended to kill and mutilate many civilians, but to create widespread terror, disarray, and insecurity that would last ...
GROUPTHINK: Celebrity hive mind outraged by gun... [Published Instapundit - Apr 18 2013] GROUPTHINK: Celebrity hive mind outraged by gun control vote. ...
Understanding Groupthink [Published CSC Center for Strategic Communication - Apr 08 2013] By: Keith Vore Deeper understanding of groupthink, its causes, and mitigation techniques should help a commander and his staff prevent it from occurring, and red teams can assist in the... ...
Understanding Groupthink [Published SWJ Blog - Apr 08 2013] By: Keith Vore Deeper understanding of groupthink, its causes, and mitigation techniques should help a commander and his staff prevent it from occurring, and red teams can assist in the... ...
Michael Roth: Conformity Is the Enemy: From Gro... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Mar 31 2013] Conformity, whether rationalized or simply imposed, undermines our government, our press, and our educational systems. We've had to learn some hard lessons about this in the last 10 years. Surely one of them is that we must defend diversity as a tool ...