intuition

Decision making. Noise, intuition and the value of feedback.

By Elisabeth Goodman, 1st February 2017 There is a lot more ‘noise’ in decision making than we might suppose. The Harvard Business Review has been running some very useful articles on decision making.  The most recent article by Kahneman D. et al, “The cost of inconsistent decision making”, October 2016, p.38, suggests that the incidence of professionals …

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Super Conscious Thinking: 5 Steps to Access Your Genius

Guest blog by Anne Scott, 24th October 2016 why this blog? Editorial note by Elisabeth Goodman I met Anne Scott through David Gurteen’s Knowledge Café and was attracted by her alternative approach to coaching individuals.  As readers of my blog will know, a lot of my work with RiverRhee focuses on introducing tools and ways of thinking …

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How learning to draw can make you better at solving problems

By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th August, 2015 Why learn to draw? I’m a Francophile: I read French novels, my current favourites being Fred Vargas’s series featuring the detective Adamsberg. I spend my summer holidays in the Languedoc in the South of France, soaking up the sunshine, delicious fruit and vegetables, dramatic landscapes and ad hoc conversations …

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Intuition revisited – inter-relationship of intuition and knowledge management (Part 3 of 3 blogs)

There are some interesting inter-relationships between intuition and knowledge management (KM) This blog follows on from part 2: “Intuition revisited – implications for process improvement and Lean Six Sigma”, and part 1: “Intuition revisited – or how it could be important to a business environment”.  All three blogs are based on Gary Klein’s book “The …

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Intuition revisited – implications for process improvement and Lean Six Sigma (Part 2 of 3 blogs)

Intuition has an important role in process improvement In a previous blog “The problem with relying on intuition for process improvement and decision making” I emphasized the problems with, rather than the opportunities for intuition. However, as Gary Klein(1) points out, the analytical techniques practiced in Lean Six Sigma also have their shortcomings.  A point also …

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Intuition revisited: how it could be important to a business environment (Part 1 of 3 blogs)

Intuition does have an important role in business In a previous blog “The problem with relying on intuition for process improvement and decision making” I emphasized the problems with, rather than the opportunities for intuition. One of my blog readers, Deborah Peluso, kindly pointed me to Gary Klein’s 30+ years of work on intuition with the …

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