09/22/2025
As leaders, we often feel the pressure to have all the answers. However, true innovation and team growth don't come from a monologue—they come from dialogue, and especially when we learn to "leaning in" to understand someone with whom you have disagreed.
Understanding someone with whom you disagree can be hard work. They see something you don't and most likely you see something that they don't. This condition usually causes everyone involved to feel negative emotions, so we often try to avoid the person, but your opportunity to really learn something different is hiding behind those emotions. As Stephen R Covey reminds us, you should be the one to lean in and "seek for to understand and only then to be understood.
Try the technique one time this week and let us know what happened.
