From the problem-solving perspective, the process for making a tough choice of “agree or not” is about deepening the understanding of the thorny issues, accumulating interdisciplinary knowledge, and gaining unique insight.
“Agree or not '' is always a tough choice waiting for us at certain decision points, can we handle it well psychologically, philosophically, or innovatively?
We do not have to agree with one another in order to learn from each other: The digital era upon us is about hyper-diversity, over-complexity, information-fluency. You can only know what you know, but there are more dimensions which you don’t know. Either for solving problems or spurring innovation, it involves learning to ride above the change curve, adapting to an ever-evolving environment. There is much in the world we do not know nor understand and because of that limitation, we need to choose to continue to learn, grow, innovate constantly.
Also, there are quite a lot of existing or emerging problems that need to be solved smoothly. To make progressive change, independent thinking and fresh eyes are critical to identify problems and solve them smoothly. People shouldn’t blindly follow others completely for driving changes, but they can always learn from each other, ask the hard questions and engage in meaningful dialogue even if they do not agree with one another. The leadership needs to empower people to learn and grow, “keep the end in mind”; so people can be pulled in the same direction to overcome common challenges.
People can agree to disagree and move on to explore alternative ways to solve problems: With blurred digital territories, breakdown of silo mentality; the more complex the situation is, the more interdisciplinary approaches are needed to reach for true understanding. Look for the things you can agree with, but be open-minded to things that you don’t understand about. Both aptitude and attitude matter. You don’t need to agree completely with the other side's viewpoint, but you can always gain empathy, insight, and new perspectives to see things from the other angle, share fresh thoughts, capture unique insight, let the open possibility come, connect, reimagine, abstract, so you will have plenty of opportunities to solve problems smoothly.
We can indeed agree to disagree yet, stay engaged with one another because the dialogue is important, yet, the harmony is priceless. Innovative problem-solving requires injecting novelty, studying the choices, and selecting the best possible implementable alternative. Insightful leaders and professionals become more open to diverse viewpoints, connect the dots in the interdisciplinary domains, and take the unique path to innovate; evaluate which alternatives might work better than others - that is the realm of logical analysis within systems understanding for solving problems creatively.
Philosophically, it’s important to leverage paradoxical intelligence for making “agree or not” choices: Paradoxical intelligence is a sort of philosophical wisdom, enabling people to see both sides of the coin objectively, without extreme thinking. The ingredients in “ philosophy” such as paradox, ideology, holism, etc, enable people to discover truth, uncover multipath logic behind problems, understand and harmonize human society smoothly.
How you create an authentic context that allows for agreement and disagreement to work equally towards the desired result is the question. For leading changes, both the “Naysayers” and “Yay sayers” are important to stimulate healthy brainstorming; naysayers or skeptics have an invaluable point of view about the change that needs to be listened to and considered. The feedback can be very important in shaping the change effort to increase its success. People perhaps cannot agree with each other completely, but they could always unify understanding, values & expectations to a certain degree, increasing the "pull" with a compelling future that resonates with their interest/needs and goals.
Change is often not the straight line, change is never for its own sake, it’s about improvement or innovation to solve commonly agreed problems, and overcome common challenges facing humanity. From the problem-solving perspective, the process for making a tough choice of “agree or not” is about deepening the understanding of the thorny issues, accumulating interdisciplinary knowledge, and gaining unique insight. So you can apply creativity to solve problems in an intelligent manner by studying the choices, and selecting the best possible implementable alternatives insightfully.
We do not have to agree with one another in order to learn from each other: The digital era upon us is about hyper-diversity, over-complexity, information-fluency. You can only know what you know, but there are more dimensions which you don’t know. Either for solving problems or spurring innovation, it involves learning to ride above the change curve, adapting to an ever-evolving environment. There is much in the world we do not know nor understand and because of that limitation, we need to choose to continue to learn, grow, innovate constantly.
Also, there are quite a lot of existing or emerging problems that need to be solved smoothly. To make progressive change, independent thinking and fresh eyes are critical to identify problems and solve them smoothly. People shouldn’t blindly follow others completely for driving changes, but they can always learn from each other, ask the hard questions and engage in meaningful dialogue even if they do not agree with one another. The leadership needs to empower people to learn and grow, “keep the end in mind”; so people can be pulled in the same direction to overcome common challenges.
People can agree to disagree and move on to explore alternative ways to solve problems: With blurred digital territories, breakdown of silo mentality; the more complex the situation is, the more interdisciplinary approaches are needed to reach for true understanding. Look for the things you can agree with, but be open-minded to things that you don’t understand about. Both aptitude and attitude matter. You don’t need to agree completely with the other side's viewpoint, but you can always gain empathy, insight, and new perspectives to see things from the other angle, share fresh thoughts, capture unique insight, let the open possibility come, connect, reimagine, abstract, so you will have plenty of opportunities to solve problems smoothly.
We can indeed agree to disagree yet, stay engaged with one another because the dialogue is important, yet, the harmony is priceless. Innovative problem-solving requires injecting novelty, studying the choices, and selecting the best possible implementable alternative. Insightful leaders and professionals become more open to diverse viewpoints, connect the dots in the interdisciplinary domains, and take the unique path to innovate; evaluate which alternatives might work better than others - that is the realm of logical analysis within systems understanding for solving problems creatively.
How you create an authentic context that allows for agreement and disagreement to work equally towards the desired result is the question. For leading changes, both the “Naysayers” and “Yay sayers” are important to stimulate healthy brainstorming; naysayers or skeptics have an invaluable point of view about the change that needs to be listened to and considered. The feedback can be very important in shaping the change effort to increase its success. People perhaps cannot agree with each other completely, but they could always unify understanding, values & expectations to a certain degree, increasing the "pull" with a compelling future that resonates with their interest/needs and goals.
Change is often not the straight line, change is never for its own sake, it’s about improvement or innovation to solve commonly agreed problems, and overcome common challenges facing humanity. From the problem-solving perspective, the process for making a tough choice of “agree or not” is about deepening the understanding of the thorny issues, accumulating interdisciplinary knowledge, and gaining unique insight. So you can apply creativity to solve problems in an intelligent manner by studying the choices, and selecting the best possible implementable alternatives insightfully.
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