I was reading a review of the recently published book by R Gopalakrishnan called The Bonsai Manager where he highlights the importance of intuition in the decision making process(http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/Books/BookDetail.asp?id=6586 ).The writer mentions that a leader should trust his intuition and I should add to it that the earlier s/he starts the better . That is because the business world is so unstructured and unpredictable that analysis can allow you to arrive at anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of the decision making process and the rest has to be left to intuition . The modern day management practices do call for a lot of preparation and snap decisions . So when the work itself demands a combination of analysis & insight , preparation and two minute decision making a combination of intuition and analysis is a must . But as practicing managers how soon do we start relying on our intuition . I think it takes sometime at least. In the MBTI(Myers Briggs Type Inventory) categorization of personalities we do have a slot for intuitive versus sensing kind of people . Your innate style might be sensing but there is an element of gut feel which is beyond the ken of thinking and sensing and that plays a vital part in any managerial decision making process.
R Gopalakrishan has mentioned an important point in his book where he states that managers have to learn and derive important lessons out of their natural surrounding else they would become what he calls Bonsai Managers . Many people get the impression that management education would make everyone all analytical , buttoned up and not very keen for any kind of out of box thinking . But I think that thought process has changed . The future lies with the intuitive manager and someone who can derive a community and nation specific idiom out of his/her experience keeping in mind the global ethos . Hence one should not be surprised with the booming economy in the Oriental world if there would be a China or an
India specific management thought process emerging in the near future .
BTW-After reading the review I have started reading the book too. More about it will follow soon …
AV
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