In the second trimester of my MBA we had a course called Organisational Behaviour. I flunked it. One of the things that was taught in that course was the concept of the Johari Window (we will come to the details). I just couldn’t get my head around why I needed to know what this window was all about. I thought it was yet another useless piece of knowledge accumulating in my already limited mind space. And that troubled me.

Many years later when I actually decided to read about it in some detail, I found the concept very interesting. As they say, you live and you learn. But it was still a useless piece of knowledge which had accumulated in my already limited mind space or subconscious or whatever else you might want to call it. 

Until today, when I realised that the Johari Window actually explains the tariff games that the American President Donald Trump has been playing lately. Before going any further let’s try and understand what the Johari Window actually is.