As Professor Whittington emphasizes, the process of constructive disagreement is essential to what we do at Princeton: we learn from one another, and we also learn by disagreeing with one another.
To test assumptions, you should "spark constructive disagreement" by making it easier for people to disagree with you, asking questions designed to surface contrary information and checking yourself by considering the opposite decision.
"I'm sure there's certain constructive disagreement on exactly where that comes out, but it is something that we take an ongoing interest in understanding".
Our findings urge for future research on how teams can develop constructive disagreement styles, and in which way ethics support services, such as ethics reflection groups or moral case deliberation, can be helpful.
(Constructive political disagreement requires that we start from some shared, non-political common ground, otherwise it's just a fight to the death). So did you heed my advice?
Given his emphasis on the virtues of constructive, reasonable disagreement on the question of how to define marriage, it is curious that he seems unwilling to entertain the possibility of reasonable disagreement concerning what the Constitution has to say about it.
The collaborations among the participants in the working group, their face-to-face as well as virtual meetings and their constructive conversations and disagreements, aim to create a space of solidarity and co-resistance that can lay the groundwork for a more hopeful future.
Jack Welch, the former chairman of GE and author of Winning, called these workplace disagreements "constructive conflict".
They won't all understand the experience in the same way, but it will likely create enough of a shared framework to make for constructive dialogue, healthy disagreement and debate, and eventually a collective sense of direction.
