Some people are motivated by a moral sense of liberty, which is that people should have the freedom to do what they want. It's an ineffective strategy to convince people from the liberty perspective using language and argument centered around harm. The most effective thing you can do is to understand the other person's story and frame the language and argument around 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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