All Eyes (Video Review)
All Ears (Video Review)
Just Math-ing With You
Fool me once...
100
"________ refers to a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that results from in-group pressures."
Groupthink
100
Groupthink is a term first used in 1972 by __________, a social psychologist from Yale University. He also published his book, "Victims of Groupthink," in the same year.
Dr. Irving L. Janis
100
A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
Meat
100
Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
Johnny
200
"If you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is ________." - Barry Rand (CEO of Avis)
Redundant
200
During what year did the Bay of Pigs Invasion occur?
1961
200
If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first.
200
Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?
Billie lives in the southern hemisphere.
300
A "shared belief within a team that it's a safe environment for interpersonal risk-taking" is defined as _________ _____.
Psychological safety
300
_________________, an advisor to President John F. Kennedy, was involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion discussions and provided a first-hand account of the events in his book, “A Thousand Days” (1965).
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
300
A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
300
Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
400
Which of the following is NOT a barrier to candid dialogue? (a.) Structural complexity; (b.) Ambiguous roles; (c.) Heterogeneous groups
(c.) Heterogeneous groups
400
The failure to reexamine alternatives initially judged to be unsatisfactory and the lack of an attempt to obtain information from unbiased experts are just two examples of the ________ __ ____________.
Results of Groupthink
400
How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
There is no dirt in a hole.
400
Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”
Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.
500
Of the six reasons listed in the video, name one reason why mergers and acquisitions often fail.
1. Secrecy 2. Implementers not involved in decision process 3. Sunk-Cost effect (deal fever) 4. No alternatives 5. Failure to test assumptions 6. Advocates as the analysts
500
There are two points in a group’s life when individuals are especially vulnerable to groupthink. Name them both.
(1.) Early stages – when people don’t yet know and trust one another (2.) Late stages – when people grow to be like-minded over time
500
Given: 1 = 5; 2 = 25; 3 = 325; 4 = 4325; What does 5 equal?
54325..... Rather than being a mathematical solution, the answer is derived by prepending (putting in front of) the value on the left side of the equation with the previous answer. So for 3 you take 25, the previous answer, and put 3 in front, giving you 325. Then you put 4 in front to get 4325 and lastly, put 5 in front to get 54325.
500
What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly (except when it is spelled incorrecktly).
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