Collective Thinking Can Step Up Progress

Several factors contribute to the progress of a group or society; each has a different impact, positive or negative. Sometimes it is difficult to assess the precise impact of a certain factor; may be, it is a combination of factors that has brought about a happy result sound progress.

Two heads are always better than one; an individual on his own is generally unable to consider dispassionately all aspects of a problem or situation. When several persons express their views and offer their suggestions the result is, by and large, wholesome. The various aspects of a question or proposal are fully examined and the pros and cons of a scheme analysed in a constructive spirit.

History proves that when a single person, be he a head of any person holding some other high post, takes a decision or comes to a conclution he make mistakes. All human beings are liable to err. Bias and prejudice play their part in the decision making process. And once a decision, is made, for instance a fateful one on making peace or going to war with another country, has been taken it is generally too late to reverse or modify it. Meanwhile, much damage and destruction might have been done. This happens particularly in war time. There is much advantage in trying for a consensus or general agreement before taking a decision on an important matter of policy. Haste and rashness are avoided.