How John F. Kennedy Changed Decision Making for Us All
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
It’s all part of a plan for President Kennedy to make the most critical decision in his life—how to respond in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yale psychologist Irving Janis used the debacle to coin the term “groupthink,” which refers to a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives.
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