| take evasive action and possibly causes a bigger | | | | in our lives and businesses as well, and these blind |
| accident. | | | | spots cause all sorts of trouble. A senior manager |
| Anatomically, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, | | | | brought us in to work with her team. Her vision |
| says: | | | | was a high-performing team that was efficient |
| In anatomy, one's blind spot is the region of the | | | | and happy. What she had was a group of people |
| retina where the optic nerve and blood vessels | | | | fighting, missed deadlines, and employee turnover. |
| pass through to connect to the back of the eye. | | | | And each saw themselves as a "victim" of |
| Since there are no light receptors there, a part of | | | | somebody else's misbehavior. As a first step, we |
| the field of vision is not perceived. The brain fills in | | | | gave her team leadership assessments which |
| the gaps with surrounding detail and with | | | | showed their strengths, weaknesses, and |
| information from the other eye, so the blind spot | | | | communication styles, then helped her team see |
| is not normally perceived. | | | | their blind spots. |
| As humans (and executives!), we have blind spots | | | | |