--- title: Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions description: Why powerful people make bad group decisions, making high school culturally relevant and more. canonical: https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T17:01:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:32.384Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 27, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 27, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Powerful people make terrible group decisions.**](http://qz.com/602500/powerful-people-are-terrible-at-making-decisions-together/) By Corinne Purtill in Quartz **2\.** [**Give kids a culturally relevant education and they’ll stay — and thrive — in school.**](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/january/ethnic-studies-benefits-011216.html) By Brooke Donald at the Stanford Graduate School of Education **3\.** [**The calorie is broken.**](http://mosaicscience.com/story/why-calorie-broken) By Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley in Mosaic Science **4\.** [**Will the 2016 campaign finally break U.S. political parties?**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-26/trump-sanders-and-the-future-of-parties) By Jonathan Bernstein in Bloomberg View **5\.** [**Low prices give the world a chance to stop buying ‘blood oil.’**](http://www.theglobalist.com/high-time-for-a-western-oil-strategy/) By Frank Vogl in the Globalist  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/"},"headline":"Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions","datePublished":"2016-01-27T17:01:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:32.384Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/","keywords":["Innovation","diet","Education","Oil","trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4195717/powerful-people-make-bad-decisions/","name":"Why Powerful People Make Bad Group Decisions"}}]}] ```