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Disagree and commitvsHiPPO
Disagree and commit
you argued hard against it, lost, and then did the work properly instead of relitigating in every standup.
The convention that once a decision is made, people who lost the argument execute it fully rather than half-heartedly. It exists because the alternative is either endless relitigation or silent sabotage, both of which cost more than a wrong decision usually does. It only works if disagreement was genuinely heard first, otherwise the phrase becomes a way to end conversations rather than a way to move past them.
Full entry →HiPPO
the room had agreed until the director said what they preferred, and then everyone had a new opinion.
A decision made by seniority rather than by evidence. It is not always wrong — senior people often hold context the room does not — but it becomes corrosive when it goes unnamed, because the team stops bringing options and starts guessing preferences. The countermeasures are procedural: opinions in writing before the meeting, the most senior person speaking last, and stating explicitly when a call is a preference rather than a conclusion.
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