Inside Intuition

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Routledge, Oct 25, 2007 - Business & Economics - 368 pages
What isgut feeling and how can it be harnessed? To what extent should business decisions be informed byinstincts which may seem irrational or impossible to quantify? Inside Intuition examines how the latest developments in social psychology and cognitive psychology, as well as exciting new insights from evolutionary psychology and cognitive n
 

Contents

1 The view from inside
1
2 Analysis paralysis
33
3 Eureka moments
64
4 Intuitive expertise
103
5 All in the mind?
124
6 The least effort principle
147
7 Intuitive muscle power
170
8 In two minds
189
9 A matter of feeling
212
10 The intuitive practitioner
238
11 Emotional social and moral intuition
271
12 The intuitive ape
288
Notes
300
An intuition reading list
344
Index
347
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Eugene Sadler-Smith is Professor of Management Development and Organizational Behaviour in the School of Management, University of Surrey. He has reasearched and written extensively in the area of learning and development, and is the author of Learning and development for managers: perspectives from research and practice (2006) and, with Dr. P.J. Smith, Learning in organisations: complexities and diversities (2006). His work on Intuition has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, professional magazines, The Times and on BBC Radio 4.