What to do

What to do with a claim

Sorting a claim takes four seconds and changes what you say next. The question that does it, and what to do with each answer.

Claims this part is about, and what each was answered with

The claimKindAnswered with

Showing up for each other is part of what a team is

Value→A statement of what matters

Answered in its own kind, which is why it went somewhere

People should be free to choose where they live

Value→A principle

New starters take longer to become productive remotely

Empirical→Evidence

Empirical — could be settled by evidence: 1Value — about what matters, not settleable by evidence: 2→Answered in its own kind: 3

three claims · one empirical and two value · every one of them was answered in its own kind

The three claims on this record that were answered in their own kind.

Three replies, one for each kind

Once a claim is sorted, the reply is nearly determined. Three sentences, with the variants for the awkward cases.

Some claims will not sort in four seconds. Three that come up constantly, and what to do with each instead of guessing.

Say the kind in the same breath as the claim. Three sentence patterns, and what each one does to the reply you get.

For whoever is chairing, writing the proposal, or taking the notes. Four things, none of which require anybody's agreement.

A recorded disagreement is an outcome, not a failure. What it requires, what it gives both sides, and why it is so rarely reached.

Four things this method does not do, one way it can be misused, and the honest size of what it is worth.

Everything on this site, in one page: the question, the three kinds, the three replies, and the four things to remember.

Twenty minutes with a sheet of paper and the argument you are actually in. What to write, what you will find, and what to do with it.