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How Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow

Harvard Business Review

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.