88Practicing Reason Over Rankfor Better Decisions
Remember back to a time when someone was trying to persuade you to believe their way of thinking? Were they successful at getting you to voluntarily buy in? Or did they have to pull rank?
With so many organizations using consensus gathering to come to decisions, the need to use reason over rank is more important than ever. And the forced go-along-to-get-along approach doesn’t stand a chance in consensus gathering.
When we take the time to help others see how our thinking makes sense in a given situation, we have significantly better odds of being successful. Often, people pull rank because they have lost patience in trying to get others to see their way of thinking; or they have not given their ...
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