Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversy. Show all posts

December 09, 2013

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK


"It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."

Alexander Pope
Late 17th/early 18th century English poet/satirist

Yet one more argument in favor of considering alternative views, in particular, those contrary to what we initially believe to be true.

March 25, 2010

Managing Controversy


"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher


The next time you and a business associate are at logger heads with each certain you are right, the other wrong, stop and examine what you really know versus believe you know.

There is an enormous difference between the two.