A Blue Heron Instructs on Patience
Posted on25 Oct 2010
Tagsdiscipline, wife, temptation, river, reorganization, real estate, problem solving, prejudice, positioning, patience, location, intuition, fish, ego, Cuyahoga River, organizational culture, business, blue heron, approaches, action
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We live in an activist business culture, meaning we are biased toward action to solve problems. For instance, reorganizations often occur simply... Read More
Best Service or Best Price: Which Reigns Supreme?
Posted on04 Oct 2010
Tagsarticle, luxury, James Surowiecki, intuition, emotions, customers, customer service, competition, buying habits, business, branding, assumptions, market, Are You Being Served, The New Yorker, survey, subjective, status, quality, product, price, premium
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In the article, “Are You Being Served?”, in the September 6, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, the author James Surowiecki cites... Read More
What Consumer Psychology Teaches Us About Problem Solving
Posted on27 Sep 2010
Tagsanticipatory, beverages, brain, business, buying habits, change, cognition, competitive, consumer, cost-benefit, Dan Ariely, decisions, drugs, emotions, expectations, goal setting, Harvard Business Review, How Concepts Affect Consumption, intuition, keeping up with the Joneses, low-cost, Michael I. Norton, objective, peer pressure, people, price, problem solving, psychology, rationale, rewards, teach
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We often anticipate and rationalize people’s decisions using a cost-benefit analysis. This perspective frequently leads to erroneous conclusions and restricts problem-solving capabilities.... Read More
Arbitrariness: The Cornerstone of Conditions
Posted on23 Sep 2010
Tagsabsolute, arbitrariness, assumptions, build, conditionality, decisions, democracy, emotions, evalute, first, house, Influence, intuition, knowledge, numbers, Personality, perspective, problem solving, question, second, subjective, third
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Arbitrariness & First, Second, Third Arbitrariness is vital to intuitive problem solving because it’s related to subjectivity which is related to personality... Read More
Definitions, Connotations and Personality Assessment
Posted on13 Sep 2010
Tagsapproaches, collaboration, connotations, context, definitions, dominance, feelings, humanistic, impression, intuition, logic, Personality, perspective, phraseology, planning, quality, quantity, spectrum, subjective, Thoughts, understanding, word choice
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Word choice and phrasing (phraseology) are simple ways we can assess personalities. As I’ve said in previous postings, everything we think, do... 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
Difference Between Instinct and Intuition in Decisions
Often, I’m asked about the difference between instinct and intuition. Part of what makes the question hard is gender bias. Men prefer... Read More
How Intuition Influences Thought Processes All The Time
Posted on26 Jul 2010
Tagsthinking process, cognition, emotions, feelings, Influence, intuition, restaurant, subconscious, 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
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
An Intuitive Understanding Of Weaknesses in the Scientific Method
Posted on07 Jun 2010
Tagsprove, belief, business, emotions, experiment, guarantees, innovation, laboratory, leadership, morale, problem solving, process, product, reality, relationships, scientific
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Weaknesses in the scientific method cause its usefulness to fall far short of people’s belief in it. In other words, hype exceeds... Read More