The Success of Failure and the Failure of Success
Posted on16 Sep 2010
Tagsobjective, feelings, flexibility, gain, history, intuition, joy, learn, legitimate, lesson, logic, mistakes, fear, organization, pain, perspective, Peter M. Madsen, planning, profitability, rationale, success, The Economist, Vinit Desai, Academy of Management Journal, anticipatory, decisions, emotions, employees, experience, failure
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How many times have we heard, “Nothing breeds success like success?” In a study of the orbital launch vehicle industry by Peter... Read More
The Rise of Intuition
Posted on09 Sep 2010
Tagsadvancements, biotechnology, BNET Blog, cognition, communications, decisions, emotions, feelings, illusion, Influence, intuition, knowledge, leadership, management, nanotechnology, Psychology Today, rationale, sales, scientific, sensors, uncertainty, unknown, wants
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The other day a colleague forwarded this link to the BNET blog speaking to intuition. Embedded in it was a link to... Read More
How Intuition Influences Thought Processes All The Time
Posted on26 Jul 2010
Tagscognition, emotions, feelings, Influence, intuition, restaurant, subconscious, thinking process, Thoughts, compass intution analogy
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Intuition influences thought processes all the time. Many times people just don’t know it. As behavioral economics and other social-related sciences are... Read More
Business is Personal and Why There’s No Way Around It
Posted on19 Jul 2010
Tagsapproaches, assumptions, business, decisions, emotions, feelings, intuition, money, personal, Personality, rationale
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How many times have you heard, “This isn’t personal, it’s business”? A key assumption underlying an intuitive approach is that everything people... Read More
Shopping for Rationales to Justify Wants and Desires
Posted on14 Jul 2010
Tagsapproaches, cognition, decisions, desire, emotions, intuition, justification, knowledge, Personality, problem solving, rationale, subconscious, want
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Virtually all of our decisions are emotionally based. Therefore, as we saw in my previous posting, Decisions: Roles of Intuition and Cognition,... Read More
How Unaware Are People of Their Television Viewing?
Posted on16 May 2010
Tagsunawareness, The Economist, television, emotions, communication, behavior, assumptions, approaches
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A special report on television viewing in the May 1, 2010 edition of the Economist stated “. . . people seem unaware... Read More
Decisions: Practical Implications of Intuition and Emotions
Posted on10 May 2010
Tagsintuition, Statistical Analysis, statistical, Scientific Method, scientific, sales, reason, rationale, practical, logic, emotions, decisions
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The important practical implication of intuition and emotions in decision making is this: if we don’t grasp the underlying emotions and how... Read More
Roles of Intuition and Cognition in Decisions
Many times people see intuition and cognition as distinct ways to decide things. In truth, they work together. The disconnection is mainly... Read More
What is Cognition?
Posted on04 May 2010
Tagstangibles, Techniques, reason, rationale, process, logic, knowledge, intangibles, decisions, conscious, cognition
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Cognition is the refining of knowledge and the justifying of decisions through rationales. Rationales are thoughts linked by such techniques as reason... Read More