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Is Your Team Quietly Screaming? Unmasking the Abilene Paradox in Your Workplace
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Is Your Team Quietly Screaming? Unmasking the Abilene Paradox in Your Workplace

We hear and engage in fallacies every day. They often form the keystones of our arguments. These logical fallacies are leaps of logic that lead us to an unsupported conclusion. People may unintentionally commit a logical fallacy due to poor reasoning or intentionally to manipulate others. Common logical fallacies include the red herring, ad hominem, causation/correlation, straw man, and the anecdotal evidence fallacy. However, there is one particularly insidious fallacy that we want to take extra care to avoid, and that is the one known as the Abilene Paradox….

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