Ben Chen
Ben Chen
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

As a counter argument, if we don’t focus our discussion on the 10% that is misaligned, how will we walk away from the meeting knowing we are aligned?

The more time we spend discussing things that we agree on, the less time we have to hash out the differences. In some cases, those differences are trivial and not worth focusing on, but in other cases those differences are exactly why you’re having that meeting in the first place.
If you don’t resolve them now, you’ll have to resolve them in another meeting down the line, all the while increasing the cost of changing course as the people whose work depends on those decisions cannot proceed confidently.

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