23 January

The Abilene Paradox is when a group makes a decision that nobody individually in the group actually thinks is a good idea. It happens when each individual goes along with a decision because they think it’s what everybody else wants. Covid is a good example of this. Most people I meet go along with ‘living with’ it, because that’s what everybody else seems to want. But if you see up close their personal experiences with Covid, they know something isn’t right. They don’t like what it does to them and their families, and it scares them. Why I talk about it when the pressure is there to not do that. The Abilene Paradox is a failure to communicate.