Pursuits
How to Speak Your Mind: Carol Bartz
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If you’re going to be a straight talker, you have to believe that it’s a virtue, that it’s an attribute you want associated with yourself.
If you have an opinion and you just state it, it allows the other person to either try to change your opinion, to agree with you, or to agree to disagree—they have an action they can take. If you are quiet, people think you agree. How can you then further the conversation when you’re at different points and it’s not really exposed? Agreeing is easy. Disagreeing takes more guts.