Our company just wrapped up our second annual company retreat out in Angelfire, NM. We normally take three days and look at our company introspectively from all facets of the business. It also gives us all a chance to sit back and enjoy each other’s company in a “non-work” environment. One of the things that I found particularly cool this year was how we were able to debate about things in a non-argumentative way. We talked about everything from business models to politics to religion. At first, I was curious what the outcomes would be but the discussions were great and really informative! We have people in our company with a vast array of backgrounds and opinions and the fact that we were able to discuss them without it getting out of hand is really great to see for our team. Everyone went into it with mutual respect for each others opinions and seemed to realize that the goal wasn’t to change others opinions but to have everyone understand their own.
In related news, last week on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ex-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was on and talked about how there was many a times where the Court had to learn to disagree agreeably and thought that was a great way to put it.
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