为什么会失败群体在决策的时候,往往会陷入群体思维之中,即在群体就某一提议发表意见时,会长时间的沉默,没有人发言,而后又一致通过。通常是群体内那些有权威、说话自信、喜欢发表意见的成员们的想法容易被接受,尽管大多数人并不赞成这一提议,但他们往往不发表自己的意见,从而导致了决策的失败。按理,群体在一起应该发挥出超常的智慧,就像中国的那句古话:“三个臭皮匠,顶个诸葛亮。”但是,在绝大部 Why Fail When groups make decisions, they tend to fall into group thinking, that is, when groups express their opinions on a proposal, they will be silent for a long time and no one will speak and then unanimously adopt it. Often the group’s beliefs that are authoritative, assertive, and expressive of opinion are easily accepted, and while most disagree with the proposal, they often fail to voice their opinions, leading to failure of policymaking. Logically speaking, the group together should exert extraordinary wisdom, as the old Chinese saying goes: “Three Stooges, the top Zhuge Liang.” However, in the vast majority