Can principles from Sun Tzu's Art of War be used to address the problems of consensus-seeking organizations?

This is a wholly theoretical paper to explore the idea of implementing Sun Tzu's Art of War to reduce the tendencies toward groupthink, which deals with the over-cohesiveness of a group that causes defective decision-making. The quality function deployment methodology was applied to measure the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Corporate communications 2003-09, Vol.8 (3), p.208-212
1. Verfasser: Sai On Ko, Andrew
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This is a wholly theoretical paper to explore the idea of implementing Sun Tzu's Art of War to reduce the tendencies toward groupthink, which deals with the over-cohesiveness of a group that causes defective decision-making. The quality function deployment methodology was applied to measure the relationships between groupthink and the Art of War. The findings of this paper indicated that a possible weakness of the Art of War is that it is a powerful strategic planning instrument, but is not geared toward internal communicative problems.
ISSN:1356-3289
1758-6046
DOI:10.1108/13563280310487667