Your team has no self-awareness, and that’s why they don’t get projects done

The Context Of Things

I’m not sure where exactly to begin this post; I’ve talked about self-awareness as a concept on this blog a few times before (here’s one example) and generally I believe it’s a super-important, kinda-defines-life element that almost no one even remotely has a clue about. (Again, it goes back to this whole “soft skill” thing; a person with self-awareness doesn’t necessarily make a company money, or so the logic goes, but a person who knows how to put deliverables on an Outlook calendar does.)

A lot of times when I believe something like “Self-awareness is important,” I feel strongly about it for a while and then I go back to “Naw, I must be crazy or misguided.” Then I come across an article on a site where people are smarter than me — in this case Harvard Business Review — and I feel like maybe I’m not a…

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