They say what you don鈥檛 know can鈥檛 hurt you鈥攂ut what could you do if you knew more?
The answer, according to research from Leeds professor Phillip Fernbach, lies in overcoming the 鈥渒nowledge illusion鈥� by understanding what we don鈥檛 know to become better leaders and teammates.
Fernbach to demonstrate how people overestimate how much they know and unconsciously attribute information from the outside community as their own.
鈥淏ecause it's so natural for us to rely on information that exists outside of our own heads, we often fail to realize what's in our heads,鈥� he said. 鈥淪o if everybody around me is sort of nodding their head and saying, 鈥榦h yeah, we understand this,鈥� we sort of get the feeling that we ourselves understand it as well.鈥澨�
So how do you best the knowledge illusion to make better business decisions? Fernbach recommended accepting that you can鈥檛 always know everything and instead capitalizing on building teams with complementary skills to maximize functionality.
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