Although groupthink leads to making suboptimal decisions, group leaders can take steps to avoid it and improve decision-making processes.
Science, Technology, and Math
Whether you’re wondering how to calculate a rocket’s trajectory or just want to find the area of a circle, these resources can help.
- Why did a man who dedicated his life to the creation of explosive devices decide to bequeath his wealth to the pursuit of peace through the Nobel Peace Prize? Learn about his life and the goal behind …
- Discover why Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor from the 1800s, is known as the "Father of Computing" (and why half of his brain is preserved at the Science Museum in London).
- While clearly tarnished by his eugenicist views, William Shockley’s legacy as one of the fathers of the modern “Information Age” is indisputable. Learn about his life and the invention of the transist …
- Why do we forget some of our long-term memories? Interference theory explains this phenomenon.