Laughter is the Best Medicine XII: Alfred Sloan on Groupthink
This item from anecdotage.com can serve as a follow-up to Wednesday's post:"Gentlemen, I take it that we are all in complete agreement on the decision here," General Motors chief Alfred P. Sloan declared during a meeting one day. "Then, I propose that we postpone further discussion," he continued, "to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about."The average rating from 23 raters was 9.23 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Labels: Decision-making, Humor
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