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salvaged items. But his group didn’t
listen, because he expressed his views
too quietly.
“Our action plan hinged on what the
most vocal people suggested,” recalls
the classmate. “When the less vocal
people put out ideas, those ideas were
discarded. The ideas that were rejected
would have kept us alive and out of
trouble, but they were dismissed because
of the conviction with which the
more vocal people suggested their
ideas. Afterwards they played us back
the videotape, and it was so
embarrassing.”
The Subarctic Survival Situation may
sound like a harmless game played inside
the ivory tower, but if you think of
meetings you’ve attended, you can
probably recall a time—plenty of
times—when the opinion of the most
dynamic or talkative person prevailed
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