As entrepreneur, with experience as manager and engineer I could tell you that arguments and discussion are probably the most useful thing for any company. Mo

As entrepreneur, with experience as manager and engineer I could tell you that arguments and discussion are probably the most useful thing for any company. More than two interesting people, with different backgrounds and beliefs should always argue. It is a great thing for any institution. Arguments discard weak ideas before the market does. If the market does you have already spent enormous amount of money. This should not be confused with keeping it civilized. My main job as a manager was keeping a great environment for discussion. Good quality debate and discussion should be teached in schools, like in ancient Greece, when they were trained to defend their position, and then to defend the opposite. This forces you to understand the other side. Like in marriage, a great marriage does not mean no arguments, because if there are no arguments it means simply that one party is surrendering to the other. You can love and respect the other person and disagree, listen to the other party, understand what they tell you and take a shared decision. No arguments in a company means design by committee. Everybody's opinion is equal an usually this means disaster, unless the people in the Round table are already preselected like King Arthur's. Brainstorming is something that you do before arguing. First you are not critical, you expose all ideas that you have, you are creative, not rational, but at the end end of the process you start trimming, cutting for getting to decisions(witch etymologically means to cut branches) based on rational decisions that make some ideas stand and the others perish.