<ul><li>Product culture with heated debates is a healthy sign of deep investment in the product's success.</li><li>Endless priority debates have engineers, designers and product managers invested in their area's success.</li><li>Product-engineering tension regarding scalability, code quality and quick wins is the tension that drives innovation.</li><li>The gap between a product's aspirations with reality is discomfort that drives progress.</li><li>Transparency in how you handle passionate disagreement builds trust and demonstrates maturity.</li><li>Establishing clear boundaries is an effective way to separate healthy debate from unproductive conflict.</li><li>The measure of product culture is what it allows the organization to achieve over how peaceful it feels.</li><li>Healthy product cultures become more effective over time as teams learn from their conflicts and improve disagreement handling.</li><li>Innovation occurs when teams can get past their opinions and agree on a path forward.</li><li>Celebrating and harnessing passionate engagement transforms tension into a competitive advantage for the product.</li></ul>

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