Patience (aka live to fight another day), transparent motives and a feeling for what is appropriate. Patience: in leadership trainings you learn about the impo

Patience (aka live to fight another day), transparent motives and a feeling for what is appropriate. Patience: in leadership trainings you learn about the importance of timing. A concerned party is not always receptive to an otherwise valid argument, so seeking (or facilitating) the right circumstances for a conversation is important. Transparent motives: my motives should be clear to all concerned parties. This not only requires honesty, but transparency (eg. putting my cards on the table and allowing others insight into my situation). Feeling for what is appropriate: I observe people losing brownie points by obsessing over details (wording, procedure etc). An honest introspection ("would the problem be solved if I won the argument over wording") can go great length to focus on what is important. Edit: a meta comment, I am saddened by the fact that your question has received (at time of writing) 4 responses but only one upvote.