Intuition Vs Rational Thinking

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- Intuition

Along with rational thinking, intuition is viewed as one of the ways or modes of thinking that people tend to use in their everyday life. Rational thinking requires more time and efforts in order to produce the reaction on a given information, say, the solution to a particular problem, while intuitive thinking is fast and unconscious. Giving the example from my life, I got an acceptance for a study exchange to Finland I was securing the position of chairperson of the Faculty student union and clearly another person was supposed to be appointed instead. I have suggested a person who I knew just a few months while working on some project. The reason behind that was that I got an impression that he was able to become a great leader, …show more content…

Even Daniel Kahneman, a noble prize winner in Economics (granted for the research related to the behavioral economics) and an author of the book: “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, admitted that he himself doesn’t trust his intuition. Some scientists say, intuition is normally based on our life experiences, whereas others claim that intuition may not necessarily be based on them but is able to create new experiences that may take a form of tacit knowledge (e.g. know- how) worth sharing with others.
Nowadays companies (be it either MNC or SME) are mainly operating in knowledge intensive industries, where tacit knowledge are seen as a source of competitive advantage. Therefore, tacit knowledge transfer should be strongly encouraged by executives as well as conducted both internally (across company functional divisions) and externally -in collaboration with suppliers to achieve the target goals (decreased R&D costs, improved …show more content…

In context of leadership development programs for young executives, many multinationals emphasize the importance of raising self-awareness via creation of group discussions dedicated to professional and personal life story exchanges and holding meeting with non profits and the end customers. Those methods tend to facilitate self-reflection and self-inquiry processes; lead to better understanding of the social impact that executive’s actions have and provide managers with new perspectives and ideas on what needs to be done to make positive changes for the

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