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How to Productively Disagree on Tough Topics
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How to Productively Disagree on Tough Topics

by Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
8 pages
20m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview

Disagreements about identity, diversity, and justice are some of the thorniest conversations taking place in today’s workplaces. Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, cofounders of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law and coauthors of the book Say the Right Thing, offer leaders four strategies for interactions that can foster empathy and respect and help rein in anger and defensiveness.

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