Intuition

Leadership Skills

Leaders make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question.  Many people wonder how leaders know how to make the best decisions, often under immense pressure.  The decision making process is an acute understanding of being familiar with the cause and effect of behavioral and circumstantial patterns that allows a leader to confidently make decisions and project the probability of their desired outcomes.

The most successful leaders are instinctual decision makers.  Having done it so many times throughout their careers, they become immune to the pressure associated with decision making and extremely intuitive about the process of making the most strategic and best decisions.

Successful leaders have learned the mastery of anticipating business patterns, finding opportunities in pressure situations, serving the people they lead and overcoming hardships.

As our life becomes more dynamic and less structured, intuition gains more and more recognition as an essential decision making tool. The solution just comes to them from somewhere in their subconscious mind, instead of getting a result from logical derivations or from a computer output complicated simulation.

The information is processed in parallel rather than sequentially. Instead of going through a logical sequence of thoughts one by one, we see the situation more as a whole, with different fragments emerging in parallel.

Intuition is found especially useful in situations where problems are poorly structured and there is no prior exemplar to refer to. Intuitive decision-making is also frequently employed when managers face seemingly contradictory facts.

Intuitive decision-making is more common in new, fast-paced, high-pressure industries. Some decision-makers are already successfully integrating analysis and intuition.

Decision-makers tend towards intuition when they deal with ambiguous or novel problems characterized by information complexity or inadequacy.

Aiyan Thiruvalluvar says

எதிரதாக் காக்கும் அறிவினார்க் கில்லை

அதிர வருவதோர் நோய். (429)

जो भावी को जान कर, रक्षा करता आप ।
दुःख न दे उस प्राज्ञ को, भयकारी संताप ॥ (४२९)

Explanation by Scholars

No terrifying calamity will happen to the wise, who (foresee) and guard against coming evils. 

வருமுன் அறிந்து காத்துக் கொள்ளும் திறனுடையவர்களுக்கு அதிர்ச்சி

தரக்கூடிய துன்பம் ஏற்படாது.