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How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 908" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-disagree-with-someone-more-powerful-than-you" target="_blank"><strong>How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You - Harvard Business Review</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. Your senior colleague outlines a project timeline you think is unrealistic. What do you say when you disagree with someone who has more power than you do? How do you decide whether it’s worth speaking up? And if you do, what exactly should you say?</p><p></p><p><strong>What the Experts Say</strong></p><p> <strong></strong>It’s a natural human reaction to shy away from disagreeing with a superior. “Our bodies specialize in survival, so we have a natural bias to avoid situations that might harm us,” says Joseph Grenny, the coauthor of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946/" target="_blank"><em>Crucial Conversations</em></a> and the cofounder of <a href="https://www.vitalsmarts.com/" target="_blank">VitalSmarts</a>, a corporate training company. “The heart of the anxiety is that there will be negative implications,” adds Holly Weeks, the author of <a href="https://hbr.org/product/failure-to-communicate-how-conversations-go-wrong-and-what-you-can-do-to-right-them/12425-PBK-ENG" target="_blank"><em>Failure to Communicate</em></a>. We immediately think, “He’s not going to like me,” “She’s going to think I’m a pain,” or maybe even “I’ll get fired.” Although “it’s just plain easier to agree,” Weeks says that’s not always the right thing to do. Here’s how to disagree with someone more powerful than you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 908, member: 1"] [URL='https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-disagree-with-someone-more-powerful-than-you'][B]How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful than You - Harvard Business Review[/B][/URL] Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. Your senior colleague outlines a project timeline you think is unrealistic. What do you say when you disagree with someone who has more power than you do? How do you decide whether it’s worth speaking up? And if you do, what exactly should you say? [B]What the Experts Say [/B]It’s a natural human reaction to shy away from disagreeing with a superior. “Our bodies specialize in survival, so we have a natural bias to avoid situations that might harm us,” says Joseph Grenny, the coauthor of [URL='http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946/'][I]Crucial Conversations[/I][/URL] and the cofounder of [URL='https://www.vitalsmarts.com/']VitalSmarts[/URL], a corporate training company. “The heart of the anxiety is that there will be negative implications,” adds Holly Weeks, the author of [URL='https://hbr.org/product/failure-to-communicate-how-conversations-go-wrong-and-what-you-can-do-to-right-them/12425-PBK-ENG'][I]Failure to Communicate[/I][/URL]. We immediately think, “He’s not going to like me,” “She’s going to think I’m a pain,” or maybe even “I’ll get fired.” Although “it’s just plain easier to agree,” Weeks says that’s not always the right thing to do. Here’s how to disagree with someone more powerful than you. [/QUOTE]
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