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When leadership teams practice groupthink despite individual doubts

Our leadership team keeps making decisions that we all individually think are wrong, but in the room everyone nods along and afterward we complain to each other privately. I don't understand how we're all smart people who somehow collectively make choices none of us believe in.

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Your whole team goes along with decisions in the room that none of you actually believe in.

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