Don't assume that the people in your organization share your own value. Religious traditions, cultural traditions, personal history often plays an important role in driving people's own values. And taking the time to just reflect on your values and write them down can be very helpful. Find ways to encourage your colleagues and others, can also help you set up an environment where people really can feel that it's ok to share their point of view and to disagree with others.
“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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