Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?SUNY Press, 24 jan. 2002 - 265 sidor The danger of groupthink is now standard fare in leadership training programs and a widely accepted explanation, among political scientists, for policy-making fiascoes. Efforts to avoid groupthink, however, can lead to an even more serious problem deadlock. Groupthink or Deadlock explores these dual problems in the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations and demonstrates how both presidents were capable of learning and consequently changing their policies, sometimes dramatically, but at the same time doing so in characteristically different ways. Kowert points to the need for leaders to organize their staff in a way that fits their learning and leadership style and allows them to negotiate a path between groupthink and deadlock. |
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Introduction | 3 |
MATCHING ADVISORS TO LEADERS | 4 |
DOES LEADERSHIP REALLY MATTER? | 7 |
WHAT IS LEARNING? | 9 |
CONCLUSION | 11 |
Who Learns and When? | 13 |
LEARNING STYLE | 17 |
MANAGING ADVISORS | 21 |
The Fall of Dien Bien Phu | 66 |
Alaskan Statehood | 75 |
LEARNING IN A CLOSED ADMINISTRATION | 80 |
The International Debt Shock | 81 |
The Withdrawal from Lebanon | 90 |
Groupthink | 99 |
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICITS | 101 |
MCCARTHYISM | 114 |
A THEORY OF LEADERGROUP RELATIONS | 25 |
CONCLUSION | 30 |
Eisenhower and Reagan Comparing Learning Styles | 33 |
THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION | 35 |
Learning Style | 37 |
Advisors | 42 |
THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION | 48 |
Learning Style | 49 |
Advisors | 54 |
CONCLUSION | 59 |
Learning | 63 |
LEARNING IN AN OPEN ADMINISTRATION | 64 |
CONCLUSION | 122 |
Deadlock | 125 |
THE BUDGET DEFICIT | 127 |
THE IRANCONTRA AFFAIR | 135 |
CONCLUSION | 147 |
Conclusion | 151 |
THE POLITICS OF ADVICE | 153 |
WHY LEARN? | 163 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 255 |
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