Intuition in Business

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Eugene Sadler-Smith (Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey)

Intuition in Business

Eugene Sadler-Smith (Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey)

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Oxford University Press
25 March 2023

Occupational & industrial psychology; Business strategy; Business innovation; Organisational theory & behaviour

This book explores the science behind intuitive decision-making in business, and shows how people's innate capacity for intuition can be nurtured and strengthened to maximize performance. We are all familiar with those perplexing situations when we think we 'just know' without knowing how or why we know. In professional life it might be the job candidate's CV that checks all the boxes but somehow doesn't stack-up: should we perform some due diligence and dig a little deeper? In personal life it could be the apartment that we're looking to rent that just felt right the minute we walked through the front door: should we trust our hunch and grab it while we can? What if time is of the essence? What if there isn't any more data to be had in the time available? In this volume, Eugene Sadler-Smith examines why situations like these often leave us in a quandary, and why these decisions so often leave us in two minds. He reveals that metaphorically speaking, we have two minds in one brain: an 'analytical mind' and an 'intuitive mind', which sometimes come to quite different conclusions about what we ought to do in those consequential decisions that permeate our professional and personal lives. Rather than thinking of our intuitive and analytical minds in constant battle with each other, we might instead think of them as two information-processing systems that have evolved to complement each other. The main idea of this book is that our analytical mind evolved to 'solve' whilst our intuitive mind evolved to 'sense'.

Neither is infallible, and our intuitions can be both flawed and marvellous at the same time. The author's clear and detailed explanation of the science behind intuition reveals how we can make intelligent use of our intuition to sense and solve our way through a world that is fast-moving, complex, and uncertain.

By: Eugene Sadler-Smith (Professor of Organizational Behaviour Surrey Business School Professor of Organizational Behaviour Surrey Business School University of Surrey)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198871569
ISBN 10: 0198871562
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eugene Sadler-Smith is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey. His research interests are in intuition in decision-making and hubris in leadership. His previous books include The Intuitive Mind (Wiley, 2010), Hubristic Leadership (SAGE, 2019), and Human Resource Development: From Theory into Practice (SAGE, 2022).