Three Ways to Harness the Power of Your Intuition

Three Ways to Harness the Power of Your Intuition: For decades, the mandate of successful executives was to set a plan and stick with it. Those days are gone, says Grant McCracken, an anthropologist and author of Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas. “Capitalism used to be so analytical, precise, and rule-oriented,” he says. “The whole job of management was staying away from what was intuitive.” But the reverse is now true, he argues, and the most successful leaders are experts in adapting quickly and listening to their hunches.