03/10/2024
If you are mid-career and you:
· Don’t have a practice of mind concentration.
· Don’t work with a coach or therapist to expand your self-awareness.
· Aren’t getting 8-9 hours of sleep most nights.
· Don’t exercise 3-4 times a week on average.
· Don’t regularly ask questions.
· Lead other people and are not modeling the above behaviors.
You and your team are ill-prepared for the future.
WHY? Information and knowledge are easily attainable today and has become commoditized, therefore individuals have to find other means to differentiate themselves in today’s modern business world.
In these uncharted times, insight to make ethically sound, strategic business decisions that are sustainable is what is essential. Insight is a more mature knowing that goes beyond knowledge and experience. It entails accessing your intuition. Unfortunately, intuition is an underdeveloped skill for most of us.
McKinsey & Company, Harvard Business Review, and University of Chicago have conducted studies that have found that intuition plays a role in executive decision-making. That’s not to say that executives rely solely on their intuition to make decisions, because they also use data and information. But due to the acceleration of technology, this is the first time in history that we have so little information about how the world will look in twenty years, and historical data won’t provide us with the same level of guidance as it once did.
Knowledge is heightened by the development of your intuition.
· It guides decision-making when faced with ambiguous or incomplete information.
· It helps individuals sense shifts in the environment and anticipate future trends.
· It enables quick decision-making by drawing upon accumulated knowledge, experience, and instincts.
· It helps leaders understand the unspoken needs and motivations of their teams, fostering trust, collaboration, and engagement.
The practices I listed at the beginning of this post, help cultivate and strengthen intuition. If you are seriously interested in developing your intuitive capacity, I highly recommend working with a coach or therapist because they are trained to ask powerful questions to help you access your intuition.
