Disagreement Is Information Before It Is Conflict

Executive Field Note 036

Two capable people examine the same situation.

They reach different conclusions.

Organizations often move quickly toward resolution.

Who is right?

Which position wins?

How do we get aligned?

But disagreement reveals something before it requires resolution.

Two people encountered the same reality and recognized something differently.

The difference itself contains information.

Resolving disagreement too quickly can destroy the opportunity to discover what produced it.

What could this disagreement reveal before someone has to be right?

Published by Executive Insights. A publication of Axiom Research Press