Sunday, June 26, 2005

Blind… spot/s

Like every other part of the human body the human eye is a design of a genius!

Yet there exists a point where things are very clear and another where there is nothing to be seen. “The Blind spot”. Often time’s people seem to have more than just one blind spot when it comes to business/es.

It is an interesting exercise to present a strategy, an analysis to make an argument or refute a hypothesis. It is not always that the entire audience embraces the results with open arms. The team is often scattered along the entire spectrum. The non believers on one end, the believers on the other and the rest some where in between.

I have often wondered how much of this has to do with their experience, their openness to a philosophy, acceptance of an ideology, culture, experience, age and above all their blind spots? So what is a blind spot after all?

Is it something we take for granted? Is it something we believe we know better than the rest? Is it something we leave to fate? Is it some thing we lack knowledge of? Is it something we are too lazy to explore? I am not sure exactly, but I think it is a combination of it all. If nature intended for us to have these blind spots there may be a good reason? I don’t think that is a good enough argument though.

How does it sound if a CEO of a corporation presents the state of business and blames any failures to the blind spot? No investor would ever buy into it. The awareness of its existence is the first step to addressing the outage. Could the answer be DIVERSITY!