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."

For more, read our entire interview with Adam Grant, "Six secrets to true originality" on McKinsey.com http://bit.ly/2aLIbiK

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