June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
233 pages
3h 2m
English
Idea 9: Intuition at work
Read the following brief account and consider the questions that follow.
Case study: Golda Meir
Mrs Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, once said that she caused the initial debacle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and ruined her political career, because she ignored her own intuition.
In her autobiography, the Russian-born and American-raised woman who became Israel’s Prime Minister noted that when, on Friday, 5 October 1973, news was received that the Russian advisers were leaving Syria in a hurry, ‘I tried not to become obsessive. Besides, intuition is a very tricky thing. Sometimes it must be acted upon at once, but sometimes it is merely a symptom of anxiety.’
She was reassured by Moshe Dayan, then Minister of ...
