After the meeting to address how to handle a competitor that the group fears is about to take considerable market share from the company, Terry learns that the competitor is actually laying off workers and is not likely to be the threat they thought it was. Terry decides not to tell the others about this development because the group was very confident in the decisions it made about how to better compete.

The question is incomplete:

After the meeting to address how to handle a competitor that the group fears is about to take considerable market share from the company, Terry learns that the competitor is actually laying off workers and is not likely to be the threat they thought it was. Terry decides not to tell the others about this development because the group was very confident in the decisions it made about how to better compete.

-Groupthink

-Mindguard

-Nominal Group Technique

-Mindguard

Explanation:

-Groupthink is when a group get to an agreement without considering the consequences of the decision to avoid affecting the balance that the group has reached.

-Mindguard is when a person in the group gives limited information that can cause doubts to maintain the idea the group has.

-Nominal Group Technique is a method in which everyone is encouraged to provide ideas that are evaluated and chosen as a group to get to a quick agreement.

According to this, the answer is that this exemplifies mindguard because Terry is acting as a filter by not providing the information he knows to allow that the decisions that the group made are not affected as he doesn't want to damage the confidence the group has.

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