December 27, 2003
Corporate group-think
Chicago Tribune: Is anyone honest anymore?
" Menschel attributes this kind of moral equivocation to group-think behavior: What's unthinkable to most individuals becomes acceptable when everybody else is doing the same. "In a crowd," he writes, "individual will can weaken. . . . The larger the crowd, and the more forcefully led it is, the easier it is to abandon individual will, and the greater becomes the collective power of our separate compromises..."Posted by fightingdem at December 27, 2003 10:15 AM
