Comparison
Disagree and commitvsStrong opinions, weakly held
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 →Strong opinions, weakly held
you argued a position firmly, someone produced a number, and you changed your mind in the same meeting.
Hold a clear position so it can be tested, and abandon it as soon as evidence lands. The value is that clear positions make disagreement possible; hedged ones cannot be argued with and so are never corrected. The failure mode is holding the first half and not the second, which produces someone who is confidently wrong and describes it as a discussion style.
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