Great list and thanks Beth. However, students do remember the Columbia
shuttle disaster which, sadly, had very similar dynamics among the
managers and engineers. The exploitation of Enron employees by the inside
traders ("Smartest Guys in the Room") is also a fairly recent example of
group think. Google group think and Columbia Shuttle as well as group
think and Enron.
Joan
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> Maybe this is a good time to haul out that yearly posting from Beloit
> College about "this year's freshman class." I find that I need to update
> my
> examples, as these kids don't really recall the Challenger explosion (so
> much for that example for discussions of groupthink), Jonestown (have to
> use
> videos to discuss cult behavior because they never heard of it), and on
> and
> on.
>
> Here's the current list (which was also posted at the beginning of this
> term). It's fun and quite surprising:
>
> http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php
>
> Beth Benoit
> Granite State College
> Plymouth State University
> New Hampshire
>
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