Why your company needs a full-time, idea-killing chief dissent officer

As we enter a high-speed, digital-driven economy, companies are under increased pressure to roll out more and more new things, to do it faster, with tighter development cycles.

Online, especially with social media, we think publish first, think second. Companies that are unable to encourage dissent, who lack employees with the authority to say “Hey, let me stop and think about that” will find themselves making embarrassing blunders – or worse, Ryan Holiday tells FastCompany.