Comment by Steve_Shervais on Asch's Conformity Experiment · 2007-12-26T12:49:19.000Z · LW · GW

At an applied level, this reminds me of Dr. Jerry B. Harvey’s discussion of the "Abilene Paradox" in management, where groupthink can take over and move an organization in a direction that no-one really wants to go. All it takes is one dissenter to break the spell.