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What Nokia, Kodak, and Blockbuster All Missed: The Groupthink Factor

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Phil McKinney
Feb 03, 2025
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It was a quiet moment in a Nokia conference room that would eventually cost $100 billion. An engineer stood nervously, holding a prototype of a full touchscreen phone. The response from management? “Interesting, but that’s not how phones work.” This dismissal highlighted the absence of the groupthink factor—a unified vision that could have driven innova…

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