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How to disagree productively and find common ground

6,231,670 views | Julia Dhar • TED@BCG Toronto

Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.

Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.

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Julia Dhar

Business strategist, champion debater

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BCG's Julia Dhar is a champion of ideas, facts and productive disagreement.

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