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Powerful people are terrible at making decisions together

Via Corinne Purtill on Quartz:

The higher the concentration of high-ranking executives, the more a group struggled to complete the task. They competed for status, were less focused on the assignment, and tended to share less information with each other. Their collaboration skills had grown rusty with disuse.

# January 26, 2016

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