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Red Teaming: The Concept

  • Red teaming makes critical and contrarian thinking part of your company’s planning process and gives you a set of tools and techniques that can be used to stress-test your strategy. 
  • Red teaming helps you better understand your customers and your competitors. 
  • Red teaming helps you scan the business environment for both threats and opportunities. 
  • Red teaming shows you the dangers that lie ahead—and how to turn them to your advantage. 
  • Red teaming may make your organization a bit uncomfortable, but it will also help you stay relevant, keep ahead of your competition.

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: It Works If Leadership Lets It Work

Even when red team members conduct themselves blamelessly, it can still be a challenge to get the entire organization to embrace red teaming and take the red team’s recommendations to heart. In the military, resistance to red teaming has come largely from officers who do not fully underst...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: Conflict Is Good

Good leaders know that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with conflict. 

Dealing with conflict lies at the heart of managing any business. As a result, confrontation—facing issues about which there is disagreement—can be avoided only at the manager’s peril. The issue can be put off, it c...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: Having Top Cover

In a business setting, a red team will be most effective when it reports directly to the CEO and enjoys his or her full support. In practice, that will not always be possible. Red teams can still be effective when they report to the head of a department or division, as long as their scope is limi...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: Red Teaming To Death

It is counterproductive for a red team to analyze every decision an organization makes. Constant red teaming can be stressful and demoralizing for employees who have their every move questioned and challenged. That is not the point of red teaming, nor is it an effective use of red teams.

A ...

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The Techniques Of Red Teaming

  • Restating a problem and re-examining the same.
  • Encouraging writing the problem and the solution(s).
  • Dissecting an argument, which involves asking a number of questions of any argument that is used to justify a particular course of action, or that is offered as an explanation ...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: Don’t Give Up

Many companies like simple solutions that do not require too much effort to implement. They prefer short-term fixes that offer immediate results, even if they do little to address the underlying problem. They are less interested in long-term solutions that require a coordinated effort to implemen...

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Red Teaming: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy

Red Teaming: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy

Red Teaming is a revolutionary new way to make critical and contrarian thinking part of the planning process of any organization, allowing companies to stress-test their strategies, flush out hidden threats and missed opportunities and avoid being sandbagged by competitors.

Red teaming cha...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: You Can’t Be Always Right, But Don’t Be Always Wrong

A Red Team that is always wrong will never be taken seriously. Its warnings will be ignored. Its reports will go unread. Its members will lose their credibility. For that reason, red teams do need to pay attention to their track record and make sure that they hit the ball out of the park, at leas...

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Implementing The Red Team

Red teaming is all about rigorous questioning and thinking unconventionally. Red teams consist of people who’ve proven to be contrarian thinkers. 

These are the three phases of a typical red teaming exercise:

  • Using analytical tools to question the arguments and assumptions that t...

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The Seven Rules Of Red Teaming: Red Team Your Red Team

A Red team cannot become a routine and should always challenge itself. It should always encourage its members to voice different perspectives and conflicting views.

Mixing up the way the team uses those tools and techniques is also a good idea. If you approach every problem the same way, yo...

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