Green = $, Time

Yellow = Fun!, Peace

Red = Effort, idealism

Blue = logic, security

- Increased acceptance

- Greater pool of knowledge

- Different perspectives

- Greater comprehension

- Training ground

- Social pressure

- Minority domination

- Logrolling

- Goal displacement

- " groupthink"

Conformity to group opinion by withholding one's own opinions in order to appear to be in agreement

Internal pressures prevent the group from openly evaluation all alternatives

Most likely:

- The group is insulated from different ideas

- the group leader stifles discussions

- there is no established procedure for defining and exploring alternatives

- group members have similar backgrounds and experiences (lack of diversity)

Decreases negitive group behaviors by having group members wrk individually

- begin with "quiet time"

- members write out ideas

- Ideas are the posted to the group

- advantages/disadvantages are discussed

- members individually reflect on discussion

- ideas are the ranked by the group

1.Select a panel of experts

2.create a questionnaire of open-ended questions

3.Compile and summarize expert responses into written report

4.Experts list their reasons agreeing/ disagreeing with report

5.Repeat steps 3 & 4 until consensous is reached

1. The more ideas, the better

2. all ideas are acceptable

3. Use others' ideas to create more ideas

4. criticism or evaluation of ideas is not allowed

- Overcomes production blocking

- Technology allows everyone to record their ideas as they are created

- No ideas lost "waiting your turn" to speak

- Overcomes evaluation apprehension

- anonymity creates free expession

- avoids "groupthink" most