IDG Contributor Network: 3 steps to reduce bias

Bias is everywhere. Our challenge is to recognize where it exists and actively prevent it from impacting our decision-making. Surprisingly the people who deny being bias the loudest have the highest degree of bias. This is unconscious bias, it occurs outside of our control automatically triggered by associations. Associations are necessary to allow us to process the approximately 11 million pieces of information we receive at a time. Our brain creates shortcuts to cope established patterns.But t