The Article has very beautifully established a relationship between gut and process of decision making. Author describes how a number of top executives take important decisions based on their intuition or perception. Some recent scientific studies describes the decision making process and brain functioning. As per studies emotions play an important role in decision making process. It helps in filtering various probabilities and further intuitive feeling provide guidance to conscious brain to take final decision. That is the reason why people take wrong decision in aggression.
Gut feeling is an X-factor that reflects maturity of a person. In an organization till junior or middle level, it resolves problems with quantitative methods but at senior level some time these models does not work. Senior management often takes decision based on the information and their intuition. Left side of brain processes information all the time and people are not aware of this. All these information are stored in subconscious mind. People come to know about it, when it is transferred to right side of the brain which is conscious mind. Executives in same way subconsciously learned the information which is transferred to right brain while decision making.
It has been observed that intuition is different from the professional instinct and there is a substantial difference in their functioning. Decisions which are made by the truly inspired, i.e. cross indexing, people have a different mechanism from the both. It is not necessary for intuition or gut to be always right. Sometimes it is overshadowed by various human tendencies. It has been observed at several occasions that people take decisions in overconfidence and later on try to protect themselves for faulty decisions. It is very difficult for people to judge the accuracy of their decisions.
