Before your next group meeting, spend 5 minutes thinking about the structure. Who speaks first? What question opens the discussion? How will you make sure quieter voices are heard?
When someone challenges your idea, do you…
You’ve just shared a proposal and a colleague pushes back hard. What is your first instinct?
Defending shows conviction. Asking shows curiosity. Research shows the best innovators do both — they hold their ideas firmly enough to articulate them, but loosely enough to let them evolve.
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