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If your goal of communicating is agreement, then you need control of the person you are communicating with. Make it your goal to understand!

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Or they just give up because you never answer at all.......
because what what they have said is such a threat to you...
that you just have to marginalize them...
or think of some other way to get rid of them.

Sorry---this is not a wise saying.
Just adding to what was wise.

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them!" — Ralph Nichols

"There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest."
— Michael P. Nichols--The Lost Art of Listening

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston Churchill

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

(...or on the mission field ...)

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Think not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. JFK President

Exploit not those that you wish to convert, but do what you can for them just because it is the right thing to do and then maybe they will ask why. Bemused Not a President