Thursdays 1-3 PM
March 27 through May 8, 2003
D.O.C. House
This seminar course of seven two-hour sessions is designed to improve your awareness, understanding and ability to think differently about the decisions you make. It is intended to enable you to more clearly anticipate, recognize and assess the many transparent and less obvious signs, signals and messages that you can't or don't want to acknowledge - your own blindspots - as you rush to make assumptions, judgements and decisions that you and perhaps others may regret. Fooling ourselves and being mislead or fooled by others (we are not fools) is very easy and very common. Surprisingly, blindspots, the cause of these deceptions and consequent questionable decisions and unintended outcomes, may also contribute to smart decisions and intended outcomes! Possible, but not likely for most of us.
To facilitate learning about blindspots and your transition from blindspottee to blindspottor, the course will be structured around a full range of learning opportunities: news articles and reports, real situation case studies, and in-class exercises. Written assignments for some readings and cases will provide you with the opportunity to test and hone your decision process skills. Importantly, careful preparation for and participation in our class sessions will strengthen the real value of your study group experience.
Course materials and the course syllabus will be available to class members during our first meeting.
Class is limited to 20 participants.
Walter D. Barndt, Jr. Professor (retired) Lally Graduate School of Management, RPI. Author, two business intelligence books and 12 professional journal articles. Consulting/teaching assignments in Australia, England, France, Germany, Guyana, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Venezuela and the United States. Former member (and Director), Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals and Association of Former Intelligence Officers. Associate Fellow, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. Commander (retired), U.S. Navy. Slowly completed five Boston marathon runs.
