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In 2010, concerns about cost overruns and staying on schedule kept executives of BP, Halliburton, and Transocean from sharing information and concerns with each other. The result was a shared assumption of safety that ultimately resulted in the explosion of a BP oil rig and an unprecedented environmental disaster. The failure to express concerns and confront potential risk is an example of

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groupthink.

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Groupthink is a method of making decisions not as an individual as a group hence it discourages creativity.

That's what happened in 2010. The safety measures of the rig were assumed to be up to the mark. This decision came from a group that leads to an unprecedented environmental disaster.

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