In many ways, we’ve all experienced how disagreements can lead to terrible outcomes. We’ve also experienced how disagreements can lead to incredible outcomes such as, our success in reducing extreme poverty or finding the perfect combination of pizza toppings. Having healthy disagreements can propel your business idea to the stratosphere and unhealthy disagreements can disintegrate it into nothing.
Bo Seo, a former debate coach at Harvard, two time World Debate Champion and, author of Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard, shares his thoughts on having healthier disagreements: