Max Levchin on how to disagree https://t.co/mrF9CBffxL
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Disagree and commit
Consensus is cozy, but broad agreement is not our aim. The right decision is. Which is why we take the time to think, debate, persuade, listen and reconsider and then, someone, decides. If you disagree, that’s fine, but once the decision is made, it’s time to commit and support it completely.
Disagree and commit
Consensus is cozy, but broad agreement is not our aim. The right decision is. Which is why we take the time to think, debate, persuade, listen and reconsider and then, someone, decides. If you disagree, that’s fine, but once the decision is made, it’s time to commit and support it completely.
Disagree and commit
it’s critical to a healthy culture that whatever your decision-making process, you insist on a strict rule of disagree and commit. If you are a manager, at any level, you have a fundamental responsibility to support every decision that gets made. You can disagree in the meeting, but afterward you must not only support the final decision, you must b
... See moreBen Horowitz • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
stark contrast to most Western suggestion-box systems where the manager says ‘yes’ or – perhaps more often – ‘no’, then explains why an idea will ‘never work’.