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Why Leaders Don't Accept Your Evidence
If leaders reject your evidence, they have a competing interpretation and your case has only done half the work. Here I unpack how to complete it.
In this episode we cover:
Why data and evidence are not the same
How competing interpretations block action
How to use 4 sources in both directions
If you want to go further
When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis.
It stops you building work around unexamine
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Why Leaders Don't Accept Your Evidence
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