As you become more senior, trying to win individual decisions at all costs can easily become more harmful than helpful. 

Deciding how you lose, with an eye toward the ultimate long-term goal, can produce better outcomes, improve colleague relationships, and transform a short-term loss into a long-term gain.

You will leave this talk with knowledge on:  

• How to predict sore topics and produce future alignment
• How to plant seeds of the technical and organizational direction you want, and garden them over time 
• Being flexible on individual battles in the name of more win-win collaboration