Johari Window and chapter 5

In our class on last Friday, we had a guest lecture about four types of leadership. This lecture reminded me of famous psychological theory, “Johari Window”.

The picture below is Johari Window. There are four sections in this window about your characteristic, which are “Open Window”, “Hidden Window”, “Blind Window”, and “Unknown Window”.

Open Window is the part of your characteristic which is known to you and other people around you.

Hidden Window is the part that only you know, not even known to your family nor friends.

Blind Window is the part where other people know, but the part you have not realized by yourself.

Unknown Window is your characteristic which is not known to anybody, and have not realized by yourself. Even though no one knows about this window, psychologist Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham argues that this window exists to everybody.

I thought this idea of separating yourself is similar to what we did in the lecture and at the same time, I came up with the idea that your type of leadership belongs to Open Window, and there might be other characteristics that belongs to three other windows.

To talk about our lecture in Friday, I thought it is important for leaders to know your teammates’ type of leadership in order to be a good leader, as it is mentioned in chapter 5 of Leading at the Edge.

Picture from; 

http://notonlyluck.com/2013/10/29/the-johari-window/