Max Levchin on how to disagree https://t.co/mrF9CBffxL
“How do you do a good job as a leader when you have to sell a decision you don’t agree with?” Part of what we’ve talked about is how to get to a place personally where you can disagree and commit. For me, it usually requires asking for space to discuss something until I understand. I may not agree but I need to understand why we’re making the decis... See more
Molly's June Tidbits
You should be what I call open-minded and assertive at the same time—you should hold and explore conflicting possibilities in your mind while moving fluidly toward whatever is likely to be true based on what you learn. Some people can do this easily while others can’t. A good exercise to make sure that you are doing this well is to describe back to
... See moreRay Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
People in an Idea Lab don’t usually take arguments personally because Idea Lab culture is built around the core notion that people and ideas are separate things. People are meant to be respected, ideas are meant to be batted around and picked apart.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
When the participants were asked why they gave the answer they did, they said things like, "I thought I was wrong," and "I thought the group knew something that I did not." The same rationalization will happen in your business meetings. Since all innovation starts as an outlier thought, driving consensus is bound to suppress inn
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