The circumstances that i put myself into will shape what i will do, and may even shape the person i become. I think there's this tendency in western cultures to valorize the heroic individual. But social psychology has shown pretty well that we are not heroic individuals. We'd be great if we were, but, you know, we aren't. And when we disagree with someone, it's because they are using a different sense of liberty than we are. Other people are motivated by a moral sense of their own humanity. So anything they can do to reduce harm is really good for them.
“A mistake that some leaders make is to assume that the people in your organization share your core values. Some of the time some of them do, but there's a bunch who don't, and those are the most difficult sorts of situations.”
In this podcast episode, Political Science professors Neil Malhotra and Ken Shotts sit down with host and lecturer Matt Abrahams, to discuss how to lead others whose values may not align with your own.
“The most effective thing you can do is to understand the other person's story and frame the language and arguments around them. And I think kind of this is what framing is about, it's fundamentally about being empathetic.”
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