In Janis' seminal works on groupthink, he and his colleagues outline eight symptoms of impeding groupthink in a working group, these being based on case studies of groupthink leading to catastrophic failures like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Challenger disaster, and the US being led into a disastrous war in Korea.

What is an example of how groupthink led a group you are familiar with into making bad choices? What symptoms were present? How might the disaster have been avoided?

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