Episode 3 - Defeating Groupthink: Diversity of People, Projects, and Place​

The Intellectual Anarchy Podcast

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

Groupthink is a cognitive bias that impairs decision making by groups of otherwise highly qualified individuals. That is, a group of smart people in a room will sometimes make a worse decision than any of them would make on their own. Group social pressure can lead to a deterioration of, “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement.” Sometimes, companies become so entrenched in their “mainframe industry” that they can’t see revolutions about to erupt under them. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss Groupthink and how diversity in people and place can overcome an expert group’s perception of invulnerability and superiority, or their stereotyping of outgroups.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

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