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When was the last time you had a conversation with someone you disagreed with and chose to listen to their point of view?

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  1. Aindra Misra
    Aindra Misra

    BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X • 1y

    It was with my engineering counterpart. That individual was very focussed on execution and short term milestones and was pushing his thought process in the team, instead of balancing short term goals with the longer term platform vision for our product. I first heard him, cleared his doubts, disagreed with him and then shared my thought process and asked him to meet me in the middle. Also made him believe that I am on his side and I am not disagreeing completely on their point of view but just t ...Read More

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  2. Mike Flouton
    Mike Flouton

    Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 4y

    This is a daily occurrence for me. 

    I believe almost all people are good and have the best intentions, learning where someone you diagree with is coming from is only going to make your POV much stronger. You'll refine your good ideas, learn blind spots or things you missed, and reform your bad ideas the more you seek out different opinions. 

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