Do You Believe In “What you see is all there is” or “WYSIATI”

 

As business leaders, it’s important for us to know what we don’t know yet.  To avoid a condition that the economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls “WYSIATI” or “What you see is all there is.” 

All the challenges of 2020 have reminded us to dig for verifiable facts (what we know) and to pay attention to the questions we and our teams ask (what we know we don’t know).

“Simply articulating this second category gives more nuance to your understanding,” Eric J. McNulty writes (“To See the Future More Clearly, Find Your Blind Spots”, 7 January 2021 in strategy+business). “Then, go deeper by getting curious.”

This story helps a lot: 

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/To-see-the-future-more-clearly-find-your-blind-spots

Because our teams often lean on us to help make sense of what’s happening, it can be easy to forget sometimes that there’s much we don’t know yet. And that’s OK. If we can all commit to stay curious and work toward discovery, we’ll eventually know and understand more.

#Leadership

#LeadingVirtualTeams

#VirtualAssistants

#Outsourcing