Surfacing the Wisdom in “No”

You can probably think of a time when you were in a group that was making a decision, and you got the sense that things were heading rapidly in the wrong direction. Whatever the reason, you might have ended up in groupthink: when everyone gets swept along with an idea, and careful questioning and thinking about implications doesn’t happen. In these moments, it can help to spend some time looking for the wisdom in divergent perspectives.