Lose Your Voice?

“Did you lose your voice?”shutterstock_128182871

It was the first question my exec coaching client asked himself as the chairman went around the room polling everyone’s thoughts.

Worse,” my client said, “I knew it was a really bad idea and everyone else knew it too.”

Research by social scientists documents the dangers of groupthink; an opinion gets started, a couple of people agree, and pretty soon you have a tidal wave of sentiment pushing in one direction.Read the rest