You jump into your car in the morning and are ready to go to work. You’ve looked in the rear-view and side mirrors and everything is clear. You start to back up and hear and feel a sickening crunch as your back tire rolls over a bike that was left out the night before. Even though you’ve been driving for years, you didn’t know it was there and you couldn’t see it because it was in your Blind Spot.
The same thing can happen to us in our role as a Project Manager if we’re not careful. It’s not that we don’t know what we’re may have been a Project Manager for years. It’s more a case of we don’t know what we don’t know. Sometimes situations, circumstances, project politics, and other dynamics may be in our Blind Spot and the first time we become aware of them is after …