The following entry is based off a milestone article by Irving Janis in the Psychology Today magazine, published in Nov. 1971 on Groupthink.
"How could we have been so stupid?" President JFK asked after he and a close group of advisers had blundered into the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
As I started to read this article by Irving Janis (no, I am not an avid reader of psychological diatribes... this was a reading for my MBA!), I thought it would be useful to share the author’s main points with our readers. I found remarkable truth in some of what is described in this article as it relates to what happens often times in our social groups, work groups, etc. and in the grander picture, what is happening in our nation.