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The Abilene Paradox is a social psychological model that explains how a group of people collectively agree on a course of action that no individual member actually desires, thereby implementing a decision they all oppose. The paradox examines the tendency of organizations or groups to act in ways that contradict their members’ true intentions and desires, ultimately harming their own objectives. At its core, the problem lies not in the inability to manage conflict, but in the inability to manage

Self-sabotage is the conscious engagement in behaviors that hinder one’s own performance or the provision of excuses, despite having the capacity to accomplish a task, in order to protect the self from the possibility of failure. First defined by Jones and Berglas in 1978, this concept allows individuals to attribute potential failure to external causes rather than to their own inadequacies. Through this strategy, individuals preserve their self-esteem in the event of failure and experience grea