Understanding Perspectives Critical to Decision Process

“It’s just taking the time to be a good person and understand people, and if we do that, I think we’ll be very successful there,” says Jason Gage, City Manager for the City of Springfield. Gage says understanding another person’s perspective is critical to making the best decisions. Whether the differences are generational, based on ethnicity, or other factors, Gage says you must have mutual respect, common decency, and care about people. Taking these factors into consideration will make you better equipped to make decisions that affect others.

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