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116. How Steve Jobs Always Got It Right

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Are You Focusing on Being Right Instead of Getting It Right?

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Board meeting of a successful company. After having each person share their point of view and the evidence to support that decision, they were all of the same opinion. So what do you do about it? You ask them to argue the opposite of their own opinion. And as we went through that process, a startling thing occurred. Every single person actually changed their minds. They really marvelled at how sure they had been, and now how sure they were again. Have you ever focused on being right instead of getting it right? I was faced with an interesting example just like this.

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