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Group Decision Making: Why Committees Fail and How to Fix Them

Cass SunsteinHarvard Business Review12 min readNovember 20, 2017
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Groups amplify individual biases rather than correcting them, leading to groupthink, information cascades, and polarization. Research shows that groups often perform worse than their best individual member on judgment tasks. The article proposes structural fixes including anonymous input rounds, designated dissent roles, and the Delphi method to harness collective wisdom while mitigating group pathologies.

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