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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

519: How to Have Productive Disagreements with Buster Benson

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Buster Benson discusses how to conquer your fear of conflict and start disagreeing well


You'll Learn:

1) The surprising cost of avoiding conflict

2) Eight crucial steps for productive disagreement

3) What to do when you disagree with your boss


About Buster:

Buster Benson is an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon. He's now editor of and writer for the Better Humans publication on Medium, creator of 750Words.com which brings private journaling to a safe place on the web, and developer of Fruitful Zone, an online platform facilitating healthy discourse. He is also author of the Cognitive Bias cheat sheet with over one million reads.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 519

0:22.0

and with Buster Benson.

0:23.6

Buster is sharing how to conquer your fear of conflict

0:26.5

and disagree excellently.

0:28.8

You'll learn one, the surprising cost of avoiding conflict,

0:32.0

two, eight crucial steps for productive disagreement, and

0:35.2

three, what to do when you disagree with your boss.

0:38.3

So to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've referenced,

0:41.5

there on over at awesome at your job

0:42.6

dot com slash ep 519 or click within your podcast app expansion of the

0:47.7

episode notes or description and you can tap the link to get there all the

0:51.4

faster. Now here's Buster's story. Buster Benson is an

0:54.3

entrepreneur and a former product leader Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon.

0:57.7

He's now editor of and writer for The Better Humans publication on Media,

1:01.7

creator of 750 Words.com which brings private

1:04.9

journaling to a safe space on the web and developer of fruitful zone an online

1:09.5

platform facilitating healthy discourse he's also the author of the cognitive bias cheat sheet

1:14.5

which hangs in my office and has been read over one million times.

1:19.5

Big thanks to Buster for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.

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