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inTuiTion
How Experience and Values Helped
Create a Successful Career
RICK SMITH
(formerly with) Georgia Department of Transportation
25.1 Introduction
When asked to write this chapter, I did what I learned a long time
ago. I did a gut check. Having never written a chapter-length docu-
ment detailing anything, let alone on how I make decisions, it was
necessary to do some introspection and also run the idea by family
and friends. I am the perfect candidate to write a chapter on intu-
ition-based decision making given that making decisions on the fly
is something I know about. Most of the important decisions I have
made over the years both in my personal life and in my professional
life have been based on experience and gut instinct.
Even with ...