Why Experience Can Stop You Seeing Clearly with Michael Henderson

This is a recorded conversation with Michael Henderson (https://www.culturesatwork.com/), a corporate anthropologist who has spent over 30 years observing organisational culture, human behaviour, and the patterns that shape how people work together.Rather than focusing on frameworks or solutions, this conversation explores something more fundamental:how experience shapes what we notice…how it influences the way we interpret situations…and what happens when that interpretation no longer quite fits.Along the way, we touch on:• The difference between observing and assuming• How experience can both sharpen and distort judgment• Moments where we realise we may have been seeing something incorrectly• How identity is tied to what we believe we know• And the role of questions in returning us to what is actually happeningThere is no fixed structure to the conversation.It unfolds as an exploration, moving between ideas, examples, and reflections as they emerge.You are listening in on that process.