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"Groupthink: a tightly knit team blunders into a fiasco through a combination of unfortunate traits, including a domineering leader a lack of diversity among team members, a disregard of outside information and a high level of stress. Such groups develop an unrealsitic sense of confidence about their decision-making and a false sense of consensus. Outside opinions are dismissed" - Irvine Janis

The above paragraph has recently been published in Peter Miller's book "Smart Swarm". Although he claims this is exemplified by the Bay of Pigs incident, I believe it is a clear reference to the Static Software Steering Committee here at Scientific Radicals. I simply won't tolerate these leaks of confidential company business strategy. We cannot afford to lose our place at the cutting edge of organisational incompetence.

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  1. See also the Group Polarization or Risky Shift phenomenon:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risky_shift

    I can proudly say that we blazed the way with this kind of group think way back in the late 60's.

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