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martin robson
Intuition was therefore acknowledged as an indispensible tool at the
intersection of the subjective and objective (people and data).
Intuition is particularly useful for making judgments about people,
because people are often complex, uncertain, and thus unpredictable,
even deceptive and Machiavellian. Participants placed a high pri-
ority on these judgments because they perceived that people were
intertwined and critical to the success of all aspects of organizational
strategy: “[V]irtually everything we do is people”. Intuition tells us:
“[I]f this person is going to be detailed, make decisions, going to be
an irritant or going to be a ‘mood Hoover’”[mood destroyer] (Robson,
2011, p.156). Intuition is the only tool for the ...