We All Have Blind Spots. None of Us Are Immune.
The question is — could yours, if revealed, open up something remarkable and unexpected in your business, your life, or both?
A blind spot in business is not a weakness of intelligence or character. It is simply what happens when expertise, momentum, and identity converge — creating areas of genuine inability to see not only what’s there and happening but what may be right in front of you. And in those areas, decisions get made that can undermine everything being built and possibly undermine important relationships, associations and agreements.
The Blind Spots That Cost You The Most Are the Ones You Never See
The most dangerous blind spots are not the obvious ones. They are the ones that feel like certainty. The ones surrounded by people who either don’t see them or won’t say what they see. The ones that cost relationships, opportunities, and ventures — often without the person ever knowing why things went wrong.
Kim Greenhouse is trained to quickly and accurately identify blind spots. She will say what needs to be said so that the person or group is well served and sees what they need to see.
In this short video she shares real examples — from the boardroom to the highest levels of public life — of what blind spots can cost, and what becomes possible when they are identified and addressed.
Watch and find out if blind spot identification is what your venture, your team, or your leadership is missing.
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Read the Full Verbatim Transcript: “Blindspot Identification” with Kim Greenhouse
Blindspot Identification
Okay, this section is for businesses and business owners and business teams and business executives.
This is a toughie.
This is about blindspot identification.
I see this all the time. I am trained to see and sense your blindspots.
And when you get to a certain level of competency, you don’t want people telling you that or sharing that with you.
But the wise ones want it. And it’s not always the people around the executives who will tell them, or that even see it. And some will see it, but they won’t say it. And the benefit of being an outsider is that I will say it.
Years ago I was representing a totally different kind of power plant. I was very excited about it. And I signed a deal with the executive.
And I put this letter in front of the most remarkable people around the world who would be open — from celebrities that I felt were a right fit, to people in the industry.
My agreement was with this person. And so he decided — he left town, he went to China for three weeks, and was never going to tell me. I found out by accident.
And when I called him up I said, “You’re going to China and I’m pulling in all these people?” And he goes, “Well, you’re just making phone calls.”
And I said, “I’m just making phone calls when I make direct contact with the founder of the Grameen Bank and these celebrities and these heads of industry?” And he said, “Yeah.” I said, “Okay, thank you very much.” And I hung up.
And you’d say, what’s the problem here? The problem is that the person had no idea who he was interacting with, who he signed an agreement with.
And the blindspot was he lost one of the greatest assets that he had. And at that moment I knew that his venture was a failure, and would be a failure, and did fail — that he could do that.
It’s not like you’re pulling in money for a gadget. The gadget could be valuable. It’s a power plant. If you sign an agreement and you decide to disappear to China and not tell the person who’s going all over the world and pulling people in and getting their attention, that’s a blindspot. You got a problem. And I knew exactly then that that person would never be successful in that venture, and it did indeed fail.
So that’s kind of an in-the-trenches blindspot.
Trying to think maybe of another one. I’ll tell you something. I’ll tell you something. Hopefully it’s not too controversial — well, I’m known for being a little controversial. This is not a political statement, but I’m going to bring up the person just because we know who he is, okay? So our president talks about climate change being a scam. Okay.
So if I were advising the president, okay, I would advise the president not to do that.
Not because there aren’t parts of packages in financing that are completely improper, but because it throws a wrench in all of the important things that are going on in our environment. Our air quality is terrible. The geoengineering has been destroying our ecosystems all over the world. It’s been going on for over forty years.
The glyphosate and other toxic chemicals have been ruining agriculture and getting into our bodies and animals’ bodies and seeds and everything, the air, even the water. Our water has had way too many chemicals in it. So to call climate change a scam kind of throws a wrench and negates everything that is going on that needs transformation.
And so this is a blindspot, because he has no clue what he’s doing when he does that — the damage that he’s doing. And it’s easy to be flippant about it. And again, I’m not a Republican or a Democrat. I’m just saying I would say the same thing if Biden did it. What I’m saying is that the environmental agenda is a propaganda message. But there’s also real things that need to be tended to that aren’t being tended to. And it’s not about CO2 or oil.
And so to say it’s a scam sounds funny, but it’s not funny. Because there are billions of people that care about the environment and are worried about the air quality, the water quality. Food quality is terrible. Agriculture’s falling apart, and has been. We are on the verge of famines.
Not that they’re not happening in certain parts of the world, and have been. There’s no need for it. So a blindspot is — even in a president, there can be a blindspot. Climate change exists. It’s not that it’s a scam. It’s that the rhetoric about it, the propaganda about it, is incorrect, okay? And so the way it’s been handled is a dismissal and putting it down, when in fact climate change exists. It’s just not an emergency.
And what the public needs — and I’m talking not Republican and Democrat — is to know that the things that are poisoning human beings, the plants and the animals and all the ecosystems, are going to be stopped.
So the blindspot is that the president knows that there is incorrect information, lies and deception around this subject, but the way it’s been handled, okay, could be handled differently so that billions of people aren’t dismissed on their water quality. The people over the United States — they cannot drink their water. There’s chemicals being put into the water that are not being tended to. This is really important. That’s a blindspot. Don’t hold it against me. It’s not a political statement. But here’s an example, okay? And he’s bringing back the great American comeback. Well, let me tell you, it’s more than just energy power, okay? It’s more than just energy power. All right, there’s an example of blindspots for you. Blindspot identification. Don’t hold it against me.
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