Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko
Micah holds a BA in International Relations from University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in Security Policy Studies at George Washington University, and PhD in Political Science from Brandeis University. He is the Director of Research and Learning at the McChrystal Group. He is also a Whitehead Senior Fellow at Chatham House and previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Micah previously served at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the US State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, the Brookings Institution, and the Congressional Research Service. He is published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Business Insider.
Red Team is in fact, a very engaging read and should be almost mandatory for organizational leaders and their IT division. The key reason in fact is that Micah is providing the practice of inhabiting the perspective of potential competitors to gain a strategic advantage.