Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer The Competition By Challenging Everything - Book Review

Red Teaming by Bryce Hoffman provides a unique look into the concept of Red Teaming - basically playing Devil's Adversary in a systematic, critical way that allows intelligence and military agencies to test our their strategies in increase chances of success.

We are full of bias, groupthink, and our culture often encourages you to 'go with the flow' instead of challenging the process. This can be disastrous for a business organization, and, in the case of the military, often deadly.

Red Teaming as a concept without the name has existed for a long time, but the origins of this as a particular methodology here in the US lie in failed missions and bad planning after 9/11.  Bryce Hoffman, the author of this book, was able to attend the selective military training for Red Team groups, (which is a fun introduction and first part of this book) and in turn has taken these seemingly combat-type tactics and applied them to business acumen.

I am a total nerd about anything that helps me to become a more strategic, more creative and more engaged thinker, and this book hit the nail on the head.  Well fleshed out, easy to follow and builds upon itself as you progress through the chapters (psychology, how to start, various techniques, etc.), Red Teaming is an important business book that can immediately be put into practice and will stand the test of time - these lessons aren't bound by an era.

If you have any interest AT ALL in about challenging the status quo, driving your business forward, or becoming better at your job - you should definitely read this book.


*Note: This book was provided for review for free for honest, unbiased review by BloggingForBooks.com .