Observation
& Thoughts

Disagreement in teams is generally viewed as disrupting efficiency. But have we misunderstood its value? At the NEC (or National Economics Challenge), when my team was in an impasse between the objectivity of “data modeling” and the subjectivity of “behavioral insights,” I realized that we have arrived at a fork: do we go one way and leave the other alone, or is there a new, third way? What I learnt from this experience was to go beyond either-or thinking and develop an “Int