What's up everyone, this is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning

Brew.

Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business

builder, the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building

a business, a team, or a new product.

Today, I am giving you a playbook to handle big disagreements in work, so let's hop into

it.

Disagreements happen at work all of the time.

From co-founder arguments about equity and strategy to co-worker misalignment about ways

of doing things, disagreements are a daily occurrence in everyone's career.

Yet most people hate disagreements and they avoid them at all costs.

People fear confrontation, they fear tension, and they worry about hurting others' feelings.

And for the longest time, I was one of those people.

But one thing I've noticed about the most successful people I know, is they have built

up the very necessary muscle of disagreeing often and disagreeing well.

And so what I want to do is break down the two part playbook to embrace big disagreements.

Part one is knowing the ground rules of good disagreements.

There are six ground rules to a good disagreement, I'm going to list them off now and then

I'm going to go through each one.

Part one, expect them to happen.

Number two, eliminate emotion.

Number three, be long-term aligned.

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