Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.