One of the great scourges of the age is groupthink. Understanding its origins, manifestations and outcomes is key to understanding the imponderable policies that we have thrust upon us today without majority support. Everywhere you look, we are confronted by ideological zealots and useful idiots proclaiming received “truths” that somehow come to be adopted as public policy, and which are never seriously challenged. The three great lies of the twenty-first century – that we face a climate “emergency”, that a middling virus should cause us to shut down everything, and that self-proclaimed victim groups get to run the world – rely on absorbed ideology, endlessly repeated and easily taken on board by large groups who seem not to notice that they have been conned.
Aug 9, 2022·edited Aug 9, 2022Liked by Paul Collits
In trouble shooting serious equipment malfunction, many maintenace teams fall into the groupthink mode. The most vocal in the group develop a pet theory. Sceptics are often afraid to speak up and the problem remains unsolved.
There is a process to counteract this, developed in WWII by the Rand Corporation and labled Kepner-Tregoe.
Originally it was called "Analytical Trouble Shooting" and later morphed into "K-T Problem Solving and Decision Making". Had we elected a real leader, he or she might have brought together a few folks familiar with different facets of the problem, and formed some logical decions as to how to deal with it. K-T is a very powerful process in solving problems with machinery. It could well be successfully used in a situation such as the one that existed in early 2020.
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims … but accomplices.”............Eric Blair
In trouble shooting serious equipment malfunction, many maintenace teams fall into the groupthink mode. The most vocal in the group develop a pet theory. Sceptics are often afraid to speak up and the problem remains unsolved.
There is a process to counteract this, developed in WWII by the Rand Corporation and labled Kepner-Tregoe.
Originally it was called "Analytical Trouble Shooting" and later morphed into "K-T Problem Solving and Decision Making". Had we elected a real leader, he or she might have brought together a few folks familiar with different facets of the problem, and formed some logical decions as to how to deal with it. K-T is a very powerful process in solving problems with machinery. It could well be successfully used in a situation such as the one that existed in early 2020.
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims … but accomplices.”............Eric Blair