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The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample time to remember and analyze your past words and decisions – more time than you, in fact, and a stronger incentive. And so their mental model of you is often much better than your own.
People Can Read Their Manager's Mind
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A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant · GitHub
Gist
If you’re debating a decision point and you find yourself in a stalemate, one really powerful question to use is “What would cause you to change your mind?”.
This forces the other party to put aside their attempts at convincing you of the merits of their position, and instead puts them in a position where they need to challenge their own perspective.
The act of challenging one's own position may lead to a realization that they were wrong.
Discovering this for one's self is far far more powerful than having someone else try to convince you of a different perspective.
Jeff Bruton Thoughts
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