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What can colleagues see about you that you miss?

A colleague may notice a habit you do not recognize in yourself. The Johari Window offers a way to discuss those blind spots alongside what is shared, private, or unknown. Explore how feedback can change awareness without treating the framework as a diagnostic test.

3–5 min

Questions you could explore

  • How could feedback reveal a blind spot without requiring someone to disclose private information?
  • How does the Johari Window distinguish a blind spot from information a person chooses to keep private?

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Work and leadership

Why keep a record of a rule's original purpose?

A workplace rule can look pointless after everyone forgets why it exists. A decision record can preserve the problem, alternatives, and reasoning for a future teammate. Compare that practical habit with Chesterton's fence analogy: understanding a barrier's purpose before deciding whether to remove it.

4–6 min

Why keep a record of a rule's original purpose?

Work and leadership4–6 minA workplace rule can look pointless after everyone forgets why it exists. A decision record can preserve the problem, alternatives, and reasoning for a future teammate. Compare that practical habit with Chesterton's fence analogy: understanding a barrier's purpose before deciding whether to remove it.

Work and leadership

A handoff the next person can use

You have sent an update, but does the next person know they are taking over? An unfinished task raises questions about responsibility, missing information, and what happens next.

5–7 min

A handoff the next person can use

Work and leadership5–7 minYou have sent an update, but does the next person know they are taking over? An unfinished task raises questions about responsibility, missing information, and what happens next.

Work and leadership

Which unfinished task actually controls the deadline?

A project may contain tasks that can happen in parallel and others that must wait. The longest dependent route through the schedule sets a simple model’s earliest finish. Shortening a task off that route may change nothing, while a shared staff constraint can change the schedule itself.

5–7 min

Which unfinished task actually controls the deadline?

Work and leadership5–7 minA project may contain tasks that can happen in parallel and others that must wait. The longest dependent route through the schedule sets a simple model’s earliest finish. Shortening a task off that route may change nothing, while a shared staff constraint can change the schedule itself.

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