 dealing with people being wrong?
whats the best way to deal with someone who is wrong (and its over something logical enough you can prove it) but won't listen and its something that can't just be ignored?
a bit of background context-
last night I was at work as was disagreeing with a manager. She was 90% right, but she was trying to convince me using brute force "do what you're told" logic, when if she'd listened for 30 seconds to why I was disagreeing it could have all been sorted out and instead just made sure I had no respect for her managing abilities.
This got me thinking about how I've been managing a team for a university project, where theres on person who disagrees with me on the "vision" of where the project is going. I know I'm right and he's wrong because it was me that had the idea and doing it his way will be no where near as good as mine, but I can't quite work out how to both listen and make sure he knows I appreciate his opinions on how things should be done even thought I know we can't do things his way.
I'm probably leaving a lot of stuff vague, particularly since this is involves tons of philosophical debate on the purpose of a leader, subjective reality and fun and fuzzy things like that, but anything interesting or argument inducing would help
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