176: How to Prevent Terrible Decisions using Red Team Thinking with Bryce Hoffman
Bryce Hoffman shares how the military’s Red Teaming thinking tools can help professionals make optimal decisions.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to confront lies in your organizations and the lies you tell yourself
2) A quick way to check critical assumptions
3) One question that will help you make better decisions in under 15 minutes
About Bryce
Bryce G. Hoffman is a bestselling author, speaker and consultant who helps companies around the world plan better and global leaders lead better by applying innovative systems from the worlds of business and the military. He is the author of the 2012 bestseller, American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, which has become a manual for CEOs looking to transform their corporate cultures. Before launching his international consulting practice in 2014, Hoffman was an award-winning financial journalist who spent 22 years covering the global automotive, high-tech and biotech industries for newspapers in Michigan and California. He writes a regular column on leadership and culture for Forbes.com and regularly appears on television and radio shows in the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit: http://brycehoffman.com/
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Bryce’s book Red Teaming
- Bryce’s website: BryceHoffman.com and RedTeamThinking.com
- Book: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
- Study: Asch Experiment
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