India, April 7 -- Tanay Kothari, the Indian-origin CEO of Wispr, recently shared an unconventional leadership tactic: asking his co-founder to publicly argue with him. After noticing his team was too hesitant to challenge his "half-baked" ideas, the Stanford alum staged a disagreement during a presentation. In a tweet, he explained what happened next.

"I asked my co-founder to argue with me in front of our whole team. That one moment changed our entire company culture. Early on at wispr, I'd give presentations and nobody would push back. They'd nod. Take notes. Say 'sounds good'," tweeted Tanay Kothari.

He continued, "But I knew some of those ideas were half-baked. And I needed someone to tell me. So I asked my co-founder to disagree wi...