Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 432
Shared awareness does not require total disclosure
The Johari Window maps how awareness is distributed between self and others so feedback, disclosure, inquiry, and privacy can be governed without turning four relational panes into a personality score.
Premise
The Johari Window makes a consequential communication condition visible: self and others do not hold the same information. Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham’s 1955 model crosses whether information is known to self with whether it is known to others, creating open, blind, hidden, and unknown areas. The panes describe a changing relationship, not compartments inside a person. Executive use begins by asking what information matters to a specific task and whether it should become shared through feedback, voluntary disclosure, inquiry, or experience.
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- CategoryAnalytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
- DomainConversation & Relationships
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Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.
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