Devil's Advocate

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Strategy

Foundational Lexiconarguing the other side
Executive Parlancecounter-argument
Scholarly Discourseadversarial position
Babel ZenithDevil's Advocate
Origin: Catholic Church

Etymology & Meaning

Arguing against a position to test it.

In the Boardroom

Assigning someone to challenge every assumption.

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