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Discussion Paper details: Essay about: After readin" rel="nofollow">ing the article "Avoid Group Thin" rel="nofollow">ink" describe ways you can min" rel="nofollow">inimize this process from occurrin" rel="nofollow">ing within" rel="nofollow">in your organization. Can you write comments (Seperately) for these two thought and also can you say I agree or disagree: First thought: As a leader in" rel="nofollow">in my organization, to avoid groupthin" rel="nofollow">ink, I believe that all ideas from each team member should be reviewed by someone outside of the current work group. Within" rel="nofollow">in our department groups, leadership will charge the team with fin" rel="nofollow">indin" rel="nofollow">ing dates that they will in" rel="nofollow">invite someone from the outside of the group to review all ideas. Also we expect that the team leader will request each team member to discuss their idea with someone outside the group then report out to the team durin" rel="nofollow">ing a meetin" rel="nofollow">ing. This will also give the team an opportunity to effectively examin" rel="nofollow">ine all ideas and alternatives. Another recommendation would be for the organization to set up several in" rel="nofollow">independent groups workin" rel="nofollow">ing on the same problem. After each group has reached the allotted time then the groups should come together to report out their fin" rel="nofollow">indin" rel="nofollow">ings. Groupthin" rel="nofollow">ink can hin" rel="nofollow">inder any group from comin" rel="nofollow">ing up with a thought-out process especially if leaders express their opin" rel="nofollow">inion about the project. I believe leadership should not share or express an opin" rel="nofollow">inion when address the group or assignin" rel="nofollow">ing any tasks. However, in" rel="nofollow">in the start of formin" rel="nofollow">ing a group, a leader should assign each team member with the role of a critical thin" rel="nofollow">inker and evaluator. This allows each member to freely discuss objections and doubts. Second thought: I believe that group thin" rel="nofollow">ink can be avoided by allowin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">individuals to work on their own when attemptin" rel="nofollow">ing to come up with a solution. By discussin" rel="nofollow">ing the ideas in" rel="nofollow">in an open forum, they see what is looked highly upon and tend to focus in" rel="nofollow">in on that or feel as if they are forced to in" rel="nofollow">include it and make hin" rel="nofollow">inder their creativity in" rel="nofollow">in comin" rel="nofollow">ing up with a solution. Within" rel="nofollow">in my organization we discuss ideas with other leaders outside of our sections to see any deficiencies in" rel="nofollow">in our plans from an outside perspective. By brin" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in an outsider we elimin" rel="nofollow">inate the biases and break down if it would legitimately work out, or where it needs to be improved. As other members of the class can atest to, we had an assignment that required us to avoid group thin" rel="nofollow">inkin" rel="nofollow">ing. So we had everyone submit their choices and it would be complied in" rel="nofollow">into a list anonymously showin" rel="nofollow">ing which choices occured the most and the fin" rel="nofollow">inal items that had the same occurrences would be put to a discussed vote. Granted it wasn't a difficult decision makin" rel="nofollow">ing process, but the concepts worked well and we were able to accomplish the task and the additional process of avoidin" rel="nofollow">ing group thin" rel="nofollow">ink. Everythin" rel="nofollow">ing should have seperate topic: For example; 1- Essay 2- First thought 3- Second thought