socialmedian: The value of “strategic intuition”

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Source: Curious Office

Mar 11, 2008

Summary

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about intuition and its immense - yet hard to quantify characteristic. Intuition, I suppose, is generally understood to be the counter point to a more analytical decision making process. This theory of the “left brain/right brain” structure and functions of the mind suggests that the two different sides of the brain control two different “modes” of thinking. It also suggests that each of us prefers one mode over the other. By now, most of us already know the personality types.

Left brain:

Logical

Sequential

Rational

Analytical

Objective

Looks at parts

Right brain:

Random

Intuitive

Holistic

Synthesizing

Subjective

Looks at wholes

In exceptional cases, the world comes to know of Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and others who certainly seem left-brained in that they are uncommonly analytical but also seem to possess a strong intuition that allows them to channel huge amounts of corporate resources towards large problems and “be right” more often than not. And, making high quality decisions more often than not is really wh

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Comments (1)

Sourcerer,

Mar 12, 2008

Having once lost my job due to being "too strategic" (at a company that billed itself as offering Internet Business Strategies but was in reality a contingent staffing company with delusions of e-grandeur)I found much that resonated in this article. As it