"Don't be blinded by your own expertise " Equally important for all disciplines.

1. Don’t Be Blinded by Your
Own Expertise
By
Sydney Finkelstein
Presented by
NIPA SAHA
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Business Studies
State University of Bangladesh

2. • Samson H Chowdhury
• Prathap C. Reddy
• Dr. A. M. Shamim
• Ahmed Ismail Hossain

3. Expertise
 Expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
 It can be defined as proficiency, competence, command, mastery,
knack, capability, caliber, aptitude, professionalism.
 Expertise sounds like an unqualified good in professional contexts.
 Companies associate it with high performance and leadership
capability and seek it when hiring for key roles.

4. Expertise
Expertise
Trap

5. Expertise trap
 Overconfidence
case of Matthew Broderick when Hurricane Katrina
slammed into New Orleans, in August 2005.
 Deep knowledge and experience leaves
people incurious, blinkered, and vulnerable—even in their
own fields.

6. Seven Warning Signs That You’ve Fallen
into the Expertise Trap
1. You’re unfamiliar with new technologies or approaches in your industry.
2. When someone asks why you or the company does things in a
certain way, you think, “Well, that’s how we’ve always done it.”
3. When making decisions, you focus on how much risk your
options pose rather than on the opportunities they represent.
4. You discover that colleagues are working together in ways you
haven’t—such as Slack, texts rather than email, and mobile
rather than desktop.
5. You keep proposing the same old strategies and tactics to
address new challenges.
6. You try to make old solutions ever more precise rather than
pioneering entirely new ones.
7. Millennials leave your team faster than they do other teams in your
company..

7. The solution is clear
 Rededicate yourself to learning and growth
 Rediscover just a bit of what the Buddhists
call beginner’s mind.

8. • Check your ego
• Methodically revisit your assumptions
Challenging your
own expertise
• Look to teammates as teachers
• Tap new sources of talent
• Add a role model or a learning buddy
Seeking out fresh
ideas
• Pose frequent creative challenges for
yourself
• Learn from mistakes
Embracing
experimentalism
Way out or Strategies

9. More aware of Expertise traps
Remind yourself of your intellectual
limitations
Challenge your Comfort zone
Become more humble and open-
minded.
Become Confident and Cultivate
more modesty
Continuous Improvement
Pay Attention to Joy and be Happy
Key Takeaways