The StoryBank
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The StoryBank
Episode 161 – Intuition or Analysis – Six Lives At Stake
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In the world of business, full of buzzwords like brainstorming, analysis, rationality, is there still a role for instinct and intuition?
Today’s story will convince you there is.
It’s about a split-second decision, made with zero data and zero time to think it through. No spreadsheet. No team discussion. No “let’s weigh the options.”
Just a feeling. A feeling so strong that it overrode everything the textbooks say a good leader should do in a crisis.
And that feeling saved six lives.
The strange part? The person who made that call couldn’t explain why he made it. Not at the time. Not for years afterward, until someone finally helped him figure it out.
What he discovered changes how I think about every “gut call” I’ve ever made and probably every one you’ve made too.
Listen on.
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