'Everybody needs
feedback, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than paying a trainer'.
Doug Lowenstein
Information is strength. You need have a lot of
information about yourself. The quality and accuracy of this information will
decide the quality of your relationship with others.
Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham created a
technique called Johari Window to help people to know about themselves, from
their own perspective and from the perspective of others. I will try to explain
this in simple terms.
There are four aspects of who we are.
There are certain things that we know about
ourselves which are also known to others. For example, my height and colour.
There are certain hidden things about myself which
I know, but others do not know. For example I may have a weakness for sweets,
which I do not reveal to others.
The third blind are consists of things which others
know about me, but I do not know. For example, others know that I am short
tempered but I am not aware of this and
others have not given me this feedback for some reason.
The fourth area consists of things about myself
which neither me nor others know of.
Success in our career depends upon how well we know
about ourselves so that we can perform at the peak of our effectiveness and efficiency.
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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