A leader who spends his or her career stuck in a single function or business unit will have an insular perspective that is a poor fit with the needs and challenges of the matrix.
And yet, advisors from previous administrations will tell you that one of the great perils for a White House, as for any powerful institution in trying times, is that its leaders tend to share the same insular perspective on how they got were they are.
If the team is dismissive of people and ideas outside the norm, not only will the team not function, but the organization will suffer from having an insular perspective prone to blind spots.
On reflection it is clear that the synoptic stance is necessary for the discovery of various inadequacies in our picture of reality, inadequacies resulting from a far too insular perspective on reality.
Unlike the first three, which require you to take an outsider's perspective on your situation and consider it as objectively as possible, this one addresses you as an insider, at risk for adopting an insular, limited view when you consider norms and values, because we are naturally inclined to take care of our own.
Imamura, K. Prehistoric Japan: new perspectives on Insular East Asia, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu (1996).
From this perspective, all those seemingly insular procedural debates in Zuccotti Park weren't insular at all: how the movement worked would determine what it wanted.
It was Mr Glanville, however, who was the first to bring an international perspective into the notoriously insular world of English soccer.
Yet many managers are reluctant to include stakeholders meaningfully in decision-making, and thus are prone to insular thinking in the absence of new perspectives and approaches.
The result is a loss of experience with different perspectives, which can contribute to an insular world view, on the one hand, and experiences of social exclusion and devaluation on the other [ 10].
Columbia Law Professor Christina Duffy Ponsa opened the first panel by recounting the basic narrative of the Insular Cases and then offering a critique of that historical perspective.
