One of my weakness (and largely a weakness of our entire group), was that we focused on that negative aspects of a fairly well written essay. As a result, I found myself repreating the same criticism with slight variations over and over. Instead I should have looked at what the author did well and tried to get our group to expand on that. In addition to this, I could have posed more questions to the rest of the group, to try and get some varied opinions from everyone in the group.
I'm unsure what specific label I would assign to myself, but I had an opinion of nearly all the points raised, and as a result ended up talking a lot. This may have helped our group expand on these ideas, but at the same time it could discouraged the participation of other group members.
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True, you did get rather stuck on one track; however, you've identified a good strategy to address that -- ask questions. I don't think anyone was crowded out. If the questions are honest and sincere, you will draw people out. Also, you will be showing genuine leadership. Ultimately, you have to maintain the flexibility to change your strategy if the direction of the discussion suggests it.
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