Bryan’s Blog

Take off the blindfold

Last week I promised more on hard-smart work, the way to defeating our personal biases that create our blind spots. So here is a link to an excerpt from my book DECIDE How to Manage the Risk in Your Decision Making, a 5-minute read which tells the story of the invention of the Linotype machine

Energise by Managing your VEGetables

The last few weeks I have been writing about blind spots. The personal biases we all form at the intersection of the behaviours driven by our Values, our Environment and our Genes. Managing our blind spots and those of your team is an imperative. The diagram below provides an indication of what happens when we

Put Some Source on your VEGetables

Yes, I am keeping with the VEGetable theme which is all about the clarity of your thinking. Clear foresight if you will. Last week I wrote about how we have blind spots to our thinking and that we are in a constant battle to steady ourselves at the intersection of our Values, our Environment and our

Bryan’s Blog: VEGetables underlie clear thinking

You know the saying from your Mum, “You should eat your carrots. They’re good for your eyesight!”. Carrots are a vegetable and the “VEG” in vegetable is a great acronym for understanding where your blind spots in your thinking come from. Our blind spots are psychological biases created at the intersection of our Values, our Environment

Bryan’s Blog: Blind Spots are Black Spots

Last week I blogged about 4 wrong questions that I saw organisations trying to answer and wasting opportunity while doing so. Why did they do so? Why do we not always kick the goals we plan on kicking? One very big answer is that we all have blind spots. They are inherent biases and research tells