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The inability to disagree or offer a dissenting opinion is holding people back in their careers and contributing to workplace accidents and business failures.
That’s according to Professor Connson Locke who lectures in the department of management at the London School of Economics.
In her new book,
Making Your Voice Heard, to be published by Endeavour on March 4, she explores social psychology research and offers advice on how to have more influence in the workplace. She says ‘groupthink’ has contributed to businesses making the wrong decisions – because those with the right answers had been too scared to speak up. She says the constructive expression of dissenting views and disagreement about the way work tasks are done can be healthy for an organisation. But personal conflict was not he