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> All power goes to those who object.

I see this all the time in the private sector where if just 1 person in a team objects to a decision, the team has to jump thru many hoops to make something barely reasonable happen

What happened to "just deal with it?"

I think it's viewed that those words are too cruel, or not nice. But actually, when you give up those words, you end up with a society far more cruel and not nice.

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I see the mindset you describe and I think it also hurts the ability to get feedback. People who don't feel strongly enough to want to be a roadblock if everyone else agrees will tend to silence themselves. Multiply this by the whole team and you get proposal -> crickets -> "if there are no objections I guess we move forward?", even though the whole team actually has reservations.

If there's someone on the team who really truly vehemently disagrees with a direction, the team would be well advised to give serious consideration before overriding that veto, but for normal soft-disagrement we really should normalize the idea that we don't need unanimity to more forward.

You'll never convince me spaces are better than tabs, but I consent to using them anyway.

Ha! What is your context? I had trouble finding a dentist. One did a filling and then sent me on my way. I said, Don’t you use that blue paper to find the contact points and adjust the bite?

“You’ll get used to it.”

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