Another critique of pure reason
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Business and scientific literature have highlighted the advantages as intuition, which can be defined as immediate insight, that is, reaching a conclusion without utilizing analysis and deduction. Although intuition increasingly is being turned to in management, such as in the controlled exercise of brainstorming, it remains outside the mainstream of business because intuition is difficult to convey to those who haven't experienced it. In addition, intuitive processes lack a trail of facts, and the quality of intuition can only be ascertained after an event. It is rare to find an intuitive person in power since business still places a premium on analysis and deduction and because intuitive people: are often difficult to manage; do not fit the mold of corporate orthodoxy; and have trouble communicating with others.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1990
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Day-dream believers
Article Abstract:
Many executives suffer from self-delusion brought on by living a life of fantasy. Eric Berne's book, The Games People Play, revealed the consequences of people's fantasy lives and categorized some of the psychological games that peoples' fantasy lives lead them to act out, including victim games that lay the responsibility for failure on others, a lack of time, or too much heavy a workload. The people who play out these psychological games are troubled, and the fantasies give them emotional support through artificial sentiments of control. Fantasies and psychological game playing can have disastrous consequences when manifested in senior executives, who often blame others for their failures and who enlist subordinates in a cycle of fantasy and failure.
Publication Name: International Management
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-7888
Year: 1991
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