http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/devil039s-advocate The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/james-mcintosh/nonsense-work/nonsense-work-30 <p><strong>Encourage your pet pessimist:</strong></p> <p>Do you have a pet pessimist at work?  Good.  Every organization should have at least one.</p> <p>Pessimists matter.  They enhance your decision making and protect your success by balancing overconfident optimists.</p> <p>As always there is a price to pay.  Pessimists take more effort to manage and they exhaust everybody on your team with their negativity.</p> <p>It doesn’t have to be this way.  Here’s what I suggest.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/james-mcintosh/nonsense-work/nonsense-work-30">read more</a></p> optimist decisions pessimist devil&#039;s advocate Leadership Management Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:22:49 -0400 James McIntosh 973012 at http://www.fastcompany.com