Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Who is the Devil’s Advocate on your team?

A common practice at the President of United States cabinet meetings when deciding on key issues is to assign one or two individuals on both sides of an issue. For example on the issue of deploying additional troops to Afghanistan, Secretary Gates was in support and Vice President Biden was asked to provide counter arguments. The two teams had to put ample thoughts and support into each side of the argument to be presented to the President. In the meantime, the President excuses himself until decision time, so he doesn’t get pulled into one or the other side.

Do you follow the same practice at your company?

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