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- White's Observations of Committee Operation
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- 1) People very rarely think in groups;
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- they talk together, they exchange information, they
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- adjudicate, they make compromises.
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- But they do not think; they do not create.
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- 2) A really new idea affronts current agreement.
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- 3) A meeting cannot be productive unless certain premises are
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- so shared that they do not need to be discussed, and the
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- argument can be confined to areas of disagreement. But while
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- this kind of consensus makes a group more effective in its
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- legitimate functions, it does not make the group a creative
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- vehicle -- it would not be a new idea if it didn't -- and the
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- group, impelled as it is to agree, is instinctively hostile to
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- that which is divisive.
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