00:00If you want to get better at handling disagreements at work, here's one strategy that Jeff Bezos made
00:05famous in Silicon Valley. It's called disagree and commit. And no, it doesn't mean pushing your
00:10opinion to the side. It means make your case, debate it, push back. But once the decision is
00:15made, stop fighting it and help make it work. Bezos wrote about this in a 2016 Amazon shareholder
00:20letter. He said that if you strongly disagree with the decision, you should say so. But if
00:25your team ultimately decides to go in another direction, you have to say, I disagree, but I'm
00:30still committed to make this work. And Bezos has done this himself. His team once wanted to greenlight
00:35an Amazon Studios project that he wasn't sure would succeed. Instead of prolonging the debate,
00:40he disagreed and committed to the plan. And this idea goes back even further. Andy Grove's biographer
00:45said that this was essentially how Intel operated under the former CEO. Everyone debated fiercely,
00:51but once a decision was made, they all pulled together in the same direction. Because disagreements
00:56can make decisions better, but an endless back and forth isn't helping anyone. It gets
01:01in the way of collaboration and it slows everyone down. And at the end of the day, you don't need
01:05to agree with every decision that's being made, but it's better for everyone if there's a culture
01:09in place that once a decision is made, everyone embraces it fully and tries their best to make
01:15it work. So here's today's challenge. Think of one strategy at work that you disagree with.
01:19If there's still time to influence it, make your case clearly. But if the decision has already
01:25been made, ask yourself, what can I do to help make this work? You should definitely speak up
01:30when it matters, but also you need to know when it's time to move forward.
