We are flooded with huge amounts of information every day. In order to handle this information overflow, our brains have developed certain coping strategies. We filter out everything that doesn’t seem relevant to what we’re paying attention to. We construct patterns, create psychological pigeon-holes and form mental models of the world.

These mental short-cuts lead to unfortunate blind-spots. For example, experts and specialists are often the least likely to spot new opportunities for the business. New ideas are resisted. We work on auto-pilot and completely miss huge opportunities for the business, even if they should be obvious.In this section, we’ll explore why employees fall into this trap, and examine some of the consequences for companies.

In this part of the talk, we discuss how to overcome psychological blind-spots, so that individuals and companies are better able to spot attractive new opportunities. No complicated techniques – just simple yet powerful principles to change how we think and view the world. These can have a profound impact on the ability of employees to generate ideas and find opportunities to move the business forward. 

In these turbulent economic times, the need for value-added innovation has never been stronger. This one-hour keynote address or half-day course is guaranteed to change the way you think about yourself, your company, and the world.