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A feature /cause of many poor or daft decisions by groups or committees, in which the collective (unanimous or group) decision is considered wrong or silly by individual members or is clearly wrong or silly from an rational stand point.
This occurs when individuals feel their objections are not strong enough to support changing the mind others in their group commonly referred to as “rocking the boat”.
In An Abilene paradox a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of many (or all) of the individuals in the group.[1][2]
It involves a common breakdown of group communication in which each member mistakenly believes that their own preferences are counter to the group’s and, therefore, does not raise objections.
The abilene paradox refer to a situation when a group make a collective decision that is a counter through and feeling of its individual member.
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