The Abilene Paradox: Explained

The Abilene Paradox is a social phenomenon where a group collectively decides on a course of action that none of its individual members truly desire. It occurs due to a fear of voicing dissenting opinions and a desire to conform to perceived group expectations, often leading to poor decision-making.
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No... the Abilene Paradox is not at all the same as groupthink. Where groupthink is the problem... you have a pervasive influence within the group that persuades all or most parties to agree on a collective decision. With the Abilene Paradox we have a situation where a majority of the members of a group don't agree with the group decision, but went along with the decision anyway because they thought a majority of others in the group supported it. This is a leadership, confidence, directness and bravery problem... not the poor-thinking-skills problem of groupthink.