Adam Grant: Avoid groupthink (in a real way)

"Groupthink is probably the biggest problem I hear leaders complain about. It’s the barrier to innovation. It leads to all kinds of bad decisions. It gets in the way of change. Every leader I work with wants to know, 'How do I get diversity of thought?' What most of them do is they assign a devil's advocate. They say, 'Look, if we have a majority opinion, we need to get somebody who’s going to argue for the opposite.' Unfortunately, most of the time, it doesn’t work."

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in other words expand different groups of thought to disband the main group of thought? i see how this could work but it also has the risk of adding fuel to the fire, creating more stubborn denial from each group. look at elections for example, the more one candidate grows in support their oppositions tend to dislike them even moreso like trump and hillary. ive been in the situation where it was my word vs multiple others in a debate and usually the tactics that work is singling out one of the loudest ones and hear them out then completely debunk it depending on the situation, and usually another will jump in to support once one of them have been debunked, this means its working so focus on their point of view next and reply/debunk it accordingly, this method turns a group vs one to a 1 on 1 scenario and your points of view are actually heard and listened to, the ones that arent in complete denial will either side with you or completely abandon the debate, theres other methods but if you can successfully do that one it works most of the time if you're in the right and can factually debunk their first few points. this is all considering that you arent dealing with barbarians that are out of control and hostile, dont argue with this type of group if possible deescalate the situation or let them believe what they want for the moment even if its wrong, situations like that could get really ugly and violent, for some reason when a group is mad at 1 person mutually their emotions tend to be heightened faster than normal. didnt mean for this to be so long but thought id share my experiences and thoughts on this inactive comment section.