Bias
When dealing with people, try not to reveal your bias or the other person’s. Better to allow people to make their own decisions.
Be neutral when it comes to other people’s affairs. Recognize your bias as well as the other person’s in the situation, and let both guide your position—which is neutrality.
In your company or team, allow your subordinates to debate over strategies and tactics, while you listen and speak last.
And when you speak, make your points seem to come from the ideas of your subordinates or the people around you. This way, you involve the entire team in the task at hand.
Instead of openly expressing a dissatisfaction, ask questions to get explanations on the issue; allow others to pass their views on the problem. This gives you the opportunity to: (1.) hide your ignorance, and (2.) dissatisfaction within the context of the group.
Do not appear to force your wish on your team or anyone. Within the team, solutions must be mutual and reasons given as to why a certain plan was chosen ahead of others.
Give your team members time to come up with solutions to challenges that are not urgent.
But to outsiders, your opinions must be vague, so the fellow makes their own decisions.
The biblical Jesus Christ was a master at recognizing and dealing with outsiders’ biases. He would not give a straightforward solution to the public.
Many times outsiders had asked Him about the Kingdom of God, for example. This, He would veil the answer in parables, symbolisms, metaphors, and third party stories.
To farmers, He would liken the Kingdom of God to seeds and soils, wheat and tares, or a farmer and his labourers.
To the proselytes, He would use stories and metaphors of servants and obligations, bride and bridegroom, or a camel and needle.
So, in the end, each group heard what appealed to them and made of His statements their own truths.
And since perceptions also vary within a group, this only deepens the mystery of His teaching and personality, and helps increase His fame and ability to relate across diverse people—and gain followers to His cause.
Understand that truth or reality is subjective. Say what you have to say, but let others make of your statements their own truths.