Can you know the unknown?
Sean Barkes
I help business leaders, senior managers and other aspirational individuals make higher quality decisions, with more clarity, by challenging their unconscious assumptions and thought processes.
If you’re of a certain age you may remember Donald Rumsfeld (then US Secretary of Defense) receiving a lot of ridicule in 2002 for talking about ‘known-knowns’. His ‘uncertainty matrix’, also known as a Johari Window, is well-accepted in management circles as it enables us to focus planning far more effectively by ensuring we consider all manner of possibilities. We think about all the things we do know - and recognise that there are lots of things we don’t know. And it’s this awareness of ‘not knowing’ that is the first step in better planning.
Working with me will give you a chance to consider each of the ‘uncertainty’ sectors (things we know, things we don’t know we know, things we didn’t know we know, and the things we didn’t even consider knowing) and, more importantly, add some colour to them: what is the importance of the sector to you? What is the value? How likely or risky are any of the sectors?
At the end of our sessions, you will – at the very least – minimise your ‘unknown-knowns’ and increase your ‘known-knowns’ as I’ll help you understand how much you do know – and how much more knowledge you can readily acquire. Head over to our blog (https://refinitycoaching.co.uk/blog/) for a fuller exposition on this topic.
If you feel it would be worthwhile having a brief, no-cost, no-obligation chat about any of the concepts here and discuss how they could generate value for you and your business, contact Sean on [email protected] or call 01522 700600.