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旁白：现在请听商业管理课程中关于这个话题的部分内容。

Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a business management class.

教授：那么让我来告诉你我自己在几年前在一家电脑公司工作时的经历。

Professor: So let me tell you about my own experience with this when I was working for a computer company a couple of years ago.

所以呢，有一天，我和我的同事建议我们应该对我们的电脑外观做设计改造，让它们看起来更具时代气息。

So one day, a coworker and I suggested we should give our computers a design makeover, make them look more up to date.

市场研究显示：如果我们的电脑看起来更酷，新顾客会更有兴趣购买我们的电脑。

Market research was showing that new customers said they would be more interested in buying our computers if they looked cooler.

but the outside design looked really old-fashioned.

一开始，组里有超过一半的人支持我们。

At first, more than half the group supported us.

There were a few senior managers there, though,

“我们的重心一直放在技术上。

"Our focus has always been on technology.

改变外观是一种不必要的成本。”

Changing the look is an unnecessary cost."

我们的一些支持者改变了主意。

some of our supporters changed their minds.

散会后，我问他为什么改变主意，

他告诉我，他不想给高级经理留下坏印象。

he told me he didn't want to make a bad impression on the senior managers.

他认为不同意他们的观点可能会危及他获得晋升的机会，因为他看起来不善于团队合作。

He thought that disagreeing with them might jeopardize his chances of getting a promotion by not looking like a team player.

我不想承认，但是经过几个小时的讨论，

I hate to admit it, but after a few hours of discussion,

我开始怀疑大家是否值得花时间去争论这个问题。

I started wondering if it was worth everyone's time to argue about this.

随着越来越多的人支持高级管理层，

As more people sided with senior management,

我开始觉得我是唯一一个坚持投票的人。

I started to feel like I was the only one holding up the vote.

似乎每个人都认为没有改变的必要，

Everyone else seemed to think change wasn't necessary,

所以我最终投票反对了我自己的想法。

so I voted against my own idea in the end.

因此，我们一致决定继续保持现有的外观设计。

So we unanimously decided to stay with the current old looking design.

但这个决定让我们损失了很多钱。

But this decision ended up costing us a lot of money.

我们的竞争对手推出了一款新设计，吸引了我们的一些客户，并阻止了我们从潜在的新客户身上获利。

our competitor came out with a new design that attracted some of our customers and prevented us from profiting on potential new customers.

Groupthink
&nbsp; One process by which groups may make bad or irrational decisions is known as groupthink. Individual members of a group attempt to conform their opinions to what they believe to be the group consensus even though the result may be negative. There are many reasons why groupthink happens. These include the desire to be liked, fear of losing a job, or even not wanting to be the one employee delaying a decision that seems inevitable. These kinds of implicit pressures to conform lead group members to ultimately make decisions that each, by himself or herself, might normally not make.&nbsp;
 
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 Explain groupthink and its effects using example of the computer company.
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