Ministry of Propaganda - 09/Apr/2006: "Intuition or Facts?"
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Intuition or Facts?
Having recently read and enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point I was thinking about also buying Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Then a book review in BusinessWeek caught my eye:
Forget Going With Your Gut, a review of Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I Sutton. It argues that careful review of facts, data and evidence usually provides better decisions than intuition and 'casual benchmarking' (Three Myths of Management, excerpt at HBS Working Knowledge). I quite like Pfeffer's columns in Business 2.0 (e.g. The Myth of the Disposable Worker or A Penny Saved, a Customer Spurned), so I expect his contribution to the book to be similarly good.
Time to make a decision soon, buy both, buy Blink only or buy Hard Facts only? Will the decision be based on intuition or hard facts?
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- When writing this entry the weather was: light rain
- When writing this entry I was listening to: Nirvana - Nevermind
- I'm currently reading/have just finished reading this book/publication: Mind Performance Hacks - Ron Hale-Evans
- I recently visited this website/-page: none apart from the ones mentioned above
- The last drink I had was/is: Williams Red (very nice, note to self: Need to buy that again!)
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