Not everyone who disagrees with you is your enemy. Some are just early or late to the same idea.

Disagreement gets read as hostility far too quickly. Someone pushing back may simply be standing at a different point on the same road, having thought about it longer, or not yet having thought about it at all. Treating every objection as an attack costs you the people who would have come around.

Next time someone contradicts you, ask one question before you defend anything. Find out whether they want a different outcome or just need more time with yours. The answer changes how you talk to them.