EXERPT
Given the amount of research that validates the intellectual benefits of including more and different perspectives in our thinking, why are we not more proactively engaged in seeking different perspectives? We can contemplate logistical barriers like lack of time, lack of resources, and lack of organizational support—all legitimate obstacles—but none of those barriers are as powerful as the ones in our own heads. We think that we are already including when we are not; we think we are engaging with new ideas when we are really moving back to our comfort zones. This chapter will uncover some ways in which we only see what we already know and offer some tools to break through our own vision blockers so that we can see what is actually in front of us.