It can often be difficult to determine what the REAL level of agreement and support for a decision is across a team. It be equally difficult to determine if people agreed to something simply because someone thought it was a good idea

GroupThink helps us understand 8 dynamics that tend to close down valuable debate and discussion of differing views

The Abilene Paradox helps us understand the dynamics of people taking actions that show agreement when, in fact, they disagreed but didn't speak up