Monday, February 11, 2008

Logic vs Intuition


Thank you All who has participated in the answering the question!

I have got 26 answers from the people around the world which I have summarized and presented it bellow.

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*Logic vs Intuition:

Different people have different levels of capabilities in logic / intuition. People with analytical background- more by logic and generalists-more by intuition.

An "average" decision-maker is using the both: logic and intuition. Logic is less risky, better understandable ( explainable to other people) and more comfortable for people with financial, analytical mind-set. Logic as a part of the brain function is providing just a narrow portion of "reality"and is working OK if the decision-maker should analyze only few deliverables.

When we are coming to the complex situation with tens and hundreds analytical results and figures the logic method becoming too slow and not competitive.

However, on another hand, using ONLY intuition without "proper skills" is a great risk of failure. Intuition is for Masters: the basis for it is a solid education, training and past experiences. Accumulative result of the successful "logical" decisions is bringing an "Art" ( intuition) in decision making process ( as Kasparov's championships in chess ).

Intuitive thinker has unique capabilities and advantages in life and business and ending up far ahead of "logical thinker".

In the most sophisticated cases the great "intuitive thinker" has an opened informative channel to the cosmos. He is "feeling" the right answer by his soul.
The cosmos is much larger than human-being brain: the broader vision is giving a chance to see things differently and in larger scale.

The intuition is helping to build a long-term strategy, relationship development, politics, etc.

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* The full question was the following:

Logic vs Intuition

On my MBA studies I have been told: " Most CEOs in the largest US corporations drive their business by Intuition".
What is your personal experience in small, mid, large companies: is decision making done by logic or intuitively?

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