Noticed · Day 5 / 7
You can disagree. Here's how to survive it.
Push back on a bad call without becoming the problem.
Dana
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Dana 8:05 AM
Change of plan, board moved up. I want Atlas live for the 15th, not the 20th. Tight but let's make it happen 💪
The data accuracy verification, the exact thing Dana said she can't get wrong for the board, won't be done until the 18th.
Stay quiet and you're complicit when the numbers are wrong in front of the board. Blurt “that's a terrible idea” and you're the difficult one.
You think the 15th risks unverified numbers. How do you reply to Dana?
Your turn
Go deeper
The move is “disagree and commit”: voice the concern clearly once, then fully support the decision. Bosses stop trusting people who either never push back or never let go.
Popularised at Amazon; see Patrick Lencioni, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”, on healthy conflict.
Next up. Day 6: managing the absent boss, the micromanager, and the deflector.