Truly accepting dissent is one of the challenges of every human being.
Be it in the private sphere, in politics or in the workplace, the capacity to become enriched by other people’s opinions is crucial in anyone’s personal development.
This article reminds us that the weakness of many workplaces is precisely the fact that leaders rely too much on people who agree with them all the time. The simple truth of any hard choice is that if a decision is important and risky, it should be controversial.
In politics as well as in the workplace, real turning points are never smooth and include, indeed require, extensive and thorough debate. Even in the most heated discussions, one should remind himself of this elementary yet valuable truth.
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Post by: davidebrad
Thanks for this post! Really enriching.
It’s really necessary that ” if a decision is important and risky, it should be controversial.”
One should always apply the ‘one-step-back-diplomacy’ in the work environment in order to really get the everybody’s opinions and to formulate an appropriate synthesis: how could this possibly happens if there’s instead a race on who’s right and who’s not?
After all, if memory serves me well, Shakespeare himself used to say: ‘Give ear to many, to few your mouth’.