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Software for Your Head
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Software for Your Head

by JIM McCARTHY, MICHELE McCARTHY
December 2001
Beginner to intermediate
464 pages
10h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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ANTIPATTERN: BLINDER

PROBLEM

Your team is hindered by its blindness to the need to create SharedVisions.

Many teams are oblivious to the state of their visions. Teams mired in Blinder are twice-blind: They can't see the need for vision, and they can't see that they can't see it. As a consequence, teams perform below par with less joy and less effectiveness than could otherwise be achieved with the same people and resources.

Teams mired in Blinder are twice-blind: They can't see the need for vision, and they can't see that they can't see it.

The opposite of vision is blindness. Blinder refers to many levels and types of blindness:

  • You're blind if you agree to do something with a complete lack of preparation, as in flying blind.

  • Blindness results ...

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