But I am worried about group think and a growing inability to be alone.
"It moves you out of your self-contained little bubble and helps you avoid group think, " he says.
We dismantle group think and tend to lend cooperative benefits to tasks that might otherwise break down in the heat of dog-eat-dog battle.
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If your organization can perfect it, the Idea Gauntlet can be used not only for the executive summary, but also to shatter group think, evaluate proposed features, and even help structure your core business model.
Many observers have suggested that adding at least three women to any type of team effort improves performance because a non-token number (three) counters group think, one of the greatest obstacles to creativity and innovation.
Rather than focus so much on shaping public opinion, media should rid itself of the curse of group think and get back to the basics of objectively reporting the facts, challenging the conventional wisdom, and citing multiples sources.
These skills are what employers will look for in the future: the ability to creatively group-think, and collaborate.
But beyond the financial incentives bubble, and the issue of complicit shareholders and analysts, there is also corporate group-think.
Intermarriage also produces children who are less clearly identified with a particular race or ethnic group (think of Tiger Woods).
It is far from clear that what U.S. intelligence needs at this juncture is more of the sort of group-think with which diplomats are all-too-often associated .
At this point I would say that what he told Jake is very similar to what he told a group I think in October that asked a similar question.
Title insurer First American Financial ( FAF, 25) defied Wall Street group-think that anything housing-related would be stuck in reverse and has surged 55% since my recommendation last March.
Even more commendably, the IAC recognized the incestuous group-think involved in producing the IPCC reports and recommended that more scientists from outside the climate change establishment be inducted in various stages of the report-writing process.
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As MacDonald notes, the New York Times has been egging them on with "news" stories whose political bias and faulty analysis have twisted the truth and fueled the controversy, and set the group-think tone for much of the rest of the American media.
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This cautionary note is all the more worrying insofar as a number of the top jobs in the U.S. intelligence community - newly created in response to warnings that there has been too-much "group-think" in those circles - have now been entrusted to career Foreign Service Officers.
For the sake of better brand positioning and better efficiency, Yang announced in the same e-mail that his company will split into two new groups: Lenovo Business Group (LBG) and Think Business Group (TBG).
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But I do think the survey group -- and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader.
But I think many of the same group of people that helped think -- helped get through Congress what many people thought was unattainable will begin the challenge of implementing what will be law on Tuesday.
And today I wanted to be here especially because I'm going to ask for help from the most important group of this whole entire effort, and who do you think that group is?
Before I tell you the results, which group do you think the chiropractors would want to do the best?
Both The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the plan, which is backed by a group called the Think Long Committee for California.
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When I ask the group what they think of the new Kavarna, a lady with dyed-cranberry hair eagerly volunteers, 'Whenever someone asks where we're from, we say the capital of rock.
"For people who create great value but for only a narrow interest group, I think that the potential for pay channels unlocks opportunities for creating revenue streams, " said Lucas Watson, YouTube's vice president of sales and marketing, at the time.
One group was told to think about a painful visit to the dentist while the other group was instructed to contemplate their own death.
If you think a camp featuring a group of cancer survivors would be depressing, think again.
"There is no excuse for this kind of criminality, whoever is involved in it, but I don't think it is a particular group of people, I don't think it's a particular race or religion, " he said.
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