Shutdown Lesson Number One: How To Disagree Productively

In his guest column for Forbes, BCG’s Grant Freeland writes about government leaders taking differences in opinion personally, a problem he says also exists in business settings. To limit the consequential standoffs, Freeland cites a TED Talk by fellow BCGer Julia Dhar, which suggests face-to-face contact and finding common ground through respectful debate as approaches for more productive discussions—whether in the White House or among colleagues in a board room.

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