From Eric Markowitz
The Blind Spot Blog
On leadership blind spots, organizational strategy, and the questions nobody in your room is asking.
The Cost of Certainty: Why Overconfident Teams Hit the Growth Ceiling
Certainty is the hidden ceiling most leaders never see coming. The confidence that launches a company quietly becomes the filter that blocks the signals needed to grow it. This post examines why overconfident leadership erodes psychological safety, kills critical information flow, and builds growth walls out of unexamined assumptions – and how shifting from a posture of authority to one of diagnostics is what actually breaks through them.
September 19, 2026
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Interactive Business Books
Are Standard Business Books Dead? Why Interactive Platforms Are Replacing Passive Reading
Your bookshelf is a graveyard of good intentions. Most business books provide information. Information is cheap. Application is where the real cost lives. The era of the shelf-help book is over — and what replaces it changes everything about how leaders learn.
July 28, 2026
AI Business Coaching
Why AI Business Coaching Surfaces the Question Your Team Has Stopped Asking
The most dangerous thing in your business isn't a competitor — it's the question you stopped asking three years ago. AI doesn't get tired, doesn't want to be liked, and doesn't accept your premise without testing it first.
July 16, 2026
Leadership Blind Spots
The 7 Leadership Blind Spots That Derail Smart Teams — And How to Surface Them
You trust the floor until the day you step forward and it isn't there. These are the seven assumptions smart leaders stop questioning — and the diagnostic questions that expose them before they cost you your growth.
July 5, 2026
Leadership
Why Your Team Keeps Solving the Wrong Problem
The most common leadership failure isn't poor execution. It's committing to a solution before the problem has been properly diagnosed. Here's the pattern — and how to break it.
June 30, 2026
Leadership
The Question Nobody in Your Room Is Asking
Every room has a blind spot. The assumption so fundamental that questioning it feels like suggesting the floor might not be there. Here's how to find it before it costs you everything.
June 29, 2026
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