Your Personality Can Get Your Team into Trouble

Learn to neutralize your bias

Learn to neutralize your bias

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain

Something weird happens when you go to the movies with a group of friends.

Everyone goes to watch the same film but, when it’s over, it feels like everyone has watched a different movie.

Everyone seems to have a different interpretation or got hooked with specific parts and characters.

Our personality plays a key role in how we see the world. We get excited or upset with the things that resonate with our particular way of being.

We all tend to see things as we are.

The problem lies when we just notice the part of the story that we like. And become blind (or deaf) to other people’s perspectives.

Why We Need to Amplify Our Perspectives

“The farther a problem is from the expert, the more likely that expert will solve it.” — Professor Karin Lakhanin, Harvard Business School

Our individual perspective filters the way we see the world, but also how we c…