Dolly Chugh Bounded Blindness

Bounded awareness, described by Max Bazerman and Dolly Chugh, refers to the well-documented observation that people routinely overlook important information during the decision-making process. One cause is our tendency to become overly focused. Focus limits awareness, and important information outside the range of focus can be missed. Thus, an airplane pilot attending to status monitors and controls can overlook the presence of another airplane on the runway. Cell phones can distract drivers and contribute to car accidents. As stated on http://www.prioritysystem.com/reasons1c.html. In chapter 4 Max Bazerman covers Inattentional blindness, change blindness, focalism and the focusing illusion and bounded awareness in groups. These are unintentional oversights observing illustrations and focusing on one aspect of the picture to make a decision as opposed to seeing the greater picture or the actual story that it tells and coming to a realistic decision.
Often times taking the quick way out to get to a solution that may or may not be the realistic outcome that you are looking for. Our human instinct always choses the quick way out based upon the initial questions. Inattentional Blindness according to the text gave the illustration of a video of ball players passing the basketball one group in white jerseys and a group in dark jersey. The question was asked while observing the video “How many times did the group with the white jerseys pass the ball?” While focusing on the white jersey you missed the other things that took place in the video. A person walking through the game in a gorilla suite thumping its chest. (p.65). This transpired only because of the initial question and not focusing on the whole chain of