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Trade paperback. From an eminent professor of psychology, this argues that dissent, disagreement and arguments can dramatically improve decision-making and the production of good ideas.

About the author

Charlan Jeanne Nemeth is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005-2009 she was Visiting Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Professor Nemeth's work has been featured in Wired, the New Yorker, Fast Company and various other media outlets. She advises numerous important institutions on effective decision-making.

Summary

We like to get along, at home or in the workplace. We don't want to hurt people or offend. Therefore, it is no surprise that numerous famous psychological experiments have proven that we don't tend to go against authority or the majority view. Famous management gurus share the view that harmony, cohesiveness and agreement are the building blocks for effective decision-making and creativity. But they are wrong.

In No!, Charlan Nemeth, the world's leading expert on dissent, uses her 35 years of research to show why we need rebels - and how fostering more disagreement can dramatically improve decisions and the production of good ideas. Using examples from Twelve Angry Men to brainstorming, she explains how people with minority opinions need the space to express themselves uncompromisingly, even if it causes discomfort. Explaining why the devil's advocate technique doesn't work and why authentic disagreement is necessary to open our perspectives, this book has the power to revolutionise business, creative organisations, and society.

Foreword

Does for disagreements what Quiet by Susan Cain did for introverts

Product details

• Authors: Charlan Nemeth, Nemeth Charlan
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781786490247
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-024-7
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 225 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Business & management, Social, group or collective psychology, Occupational and industrial psychology, Political control and freedoms, Political ideologies and movements, Anarchism