TRANSFORMING ORGS: INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS
The Morning Standard|April 22, 2021
When you are so intensely focused on the signals you are looking for, you are liable to miss the other signs. How does one recognise this and avoid it?
R GOPALAKRISHNAN
TRANSFORMING ORGS: INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS

Great leaders accept blame and pass along credit to colleagues. the less-than-great take credit and blame others—predecessors, coworkers and alleged enemies. they insult their own team, who must deliver results. Former US president Donald Trump is a prime example and there are many closer to home.

I reviewed three transformation risks—demyelination risk (28 January 2021), subsonic sounds (25 February 2021) and capacity for change (26 March 2021). In this article, I focus on inattentional blindness due to one of two obsessions: predetermined signals or self-obsession. It occurs when you are so intensely focused on the signals you are looking for that you miss the others. It could also be because of self-obsession; for example, Adolf Hitler, who was singularly obsessed with expanding lebensraum while enhancing his personal image through dress and highly practised demagoguery.

In a 1999 university experiment, respondents were asked to count the number of times the ball changed hands during the replay of a basketball match. Amidst the frames, significant nine-second interruptions were interposed of a big gorilla thumping his chest. Many observers completely missed the multiple appearances of the gorilla since their brain was focused on the assigned task of counting the exchanges of the ball.

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