Does It Feel Right?: Develop the Intuition to Act Quickly

Does It Feel Right?

Develop the Intuition to Act Quickly

Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther

The supreme task is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can lead to them.

—Albert Einstein¹

Something Just Doesn’t Feel Right

You are in the last phases of completing a deal. As you look at the neat piles of papers on the table in front of you, all the details seem perfect. The lawyers and accountants have gone over all of it with a fine-tooth comb. All the i’s are dotted. All the t’s are crossed. This deal means a lot for your company, and you’ve pulled it off. ...