Jeff Bezos' advice for when to push back at work — and when to move on
Source: Business Insider ·
While Jeff Bezos says workers should speak up if they feel strongly, they still need to commit to whatever decision is made.
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Jeff Bezos popularized the phrase "disagree and commit."Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images; Ana Altchek; Alyssa Powell/BIToday's tip to get better at work: Get better at handling disagreements at work.Jeff Bezos wrote about his '"disagree and commit" strategy in a 2016 Amazon shareholder letter.Make your case, but once a decision is made, commit to the decision, even if you disagree.Get better at: DisagreementsToday's moveIn an era where leaders want to move quickly, you don't want to be the one slowing everyone down.Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, wrote about the phrase "disagree and commit" in a 2016 Amazon shareholder letter under a section labeled "High-Velocity Decision Making," and it's been making a comeback.While Bezos popularized the phrase, it echoes a management philosophy that goes back to the 1980s, when Andy Grove ran Intel. Richard S. Tedlow, Grove's biographer, previously told BI that the concept of disagreeing and committing "was the essence of how he felt…