Unstick Your Stuck Thinking (Guest Post on HCI.org)

Whether we realize it or not we naturally tend to cling tightly to our beliefs and look for information that confirms our beliefs while disavowing information that contradicts them. We see what we want to see and we hear what we want to hear…In the business world it can wreak havoc when we manage and lead. It prevents us from making effective judgments and decisions. Confirmation Bias interferes with our ability to gather all sides of an argument, consider all possible points of view and weigh a situation with a cool, objective mind.  It diminishes what psychologists call situational awareness…Read more here.