Your assumptions are windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Isaac Asimov
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Isaac Asimov
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Westrend Group - May 2021
The coronavirus outbreak and how we have dealt with it has raised significant questions about how we identify manage emerging issues. Pandemics have occurred from time to time over the past thousands of years. There were articles in the 1970s pointing out that we could expect pandemics in the future and needed to be able to recognize and prepare for them. These early warnings went unnoticed or ignored. Some of this reaction can be attributed to the "biases" Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Daniel Ariely and others have described. Their central point is that we need to understand that to be "rational" doesn't mean "logical" but is more usefully understood as being consistent in how we make decisions. Their central point is that we all have "biases" that affect how we make decisions.Understanding and being sensitive to these biases can help us improve our decisions. Here is a link to a list of common biases most of us deal with on and ongoing basis. https://humanhow.com/en/list-of-cognitive-biases-with-examples/ Recognizing these should help us deal with present challenges - and challenges that lie ahead. Please stay well and be safe. |
The Westrend Group
The Westrend Group helps individuals and organizations manage the challenges of change. Our work includes speeches/presentations at association meetings, corporate management working sessions and Board sessions. Our consulting assignments usually focus on strategic planning, organizational change and executive development. The work is based on monitoring social, economic and political trends to help clients identify and adapt to changes that could affect them. Michael Annison's previous work includes assignments in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.as well as work for local, state and federal governments. His experience includes founding of an international shrimp company and serving as Vice President of the Naisbitt Group whose research was the basis for the 1980’s best selling book Megatrends. He has written four books: Trust Matters-New Dimensions of Health Care Leadership (co-authored with Dan Wilford), the award winning Managing the Whirlwind-Patterns and Opportunities in a Changing World. His third book, Organizing for Good, discusses what it takes for leaders and organizations to be effective in a changing world and his most recent book, The Trust Dimension, again was co-authored with Dan Wilford. He is presently working on a fifth book tentatively titled The Emerging Mental Revolution Throughout his career, Mr. Annison has worked on and written about questions related to social and organizational change. |
Michael Annison - Westrend Group - 1006 Olive Street, Denver, Colorado 80220 - 303-810-9085 - mhannison@westrendgroup.com