Word: intuitionism
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From the moment of their entrances, Cohen and Carlos fill out these character outlines admirably. Cohen's Mag is a bright-eyed, quick-witted girl who loves to speculate upon anything but the final exam subjects at hand. With great charm, she prattles on about everything from their new apartment...
As he sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment. The sifting of personal experience is an important part of the intuitive faculty. Rowan approvingly quotes the late Joyce Hall, founder of the Hallmark greeting-card empire, who called memory "the vapor of past...
A formidable enemy of intuition, according to Rowan, is "analysis paralysis," a condition caused by too much inquiry. "Constantly accumulating new information . . . without giving the mind a chance to percolate and come to a conclusion intuitively can delay any important decision until the time for action expires," he says. That...
On the other hand, when executives confuse intuition with fantasy, the results can be disastrous. William Agee, the former chairman of Bendix, may have confused the two during his abortive 1982 campaign to take over Martin Marietta. Marietta later rejected Agee's offer, and Bendix was devoured by Allied Corp...
Right on the scholarly mark. Reagan's experience and intuition tell him the same things many scholars are finding from their study in the library stacks. To make Government smaller and more efficient, the presidency may need more power to trim here and discard there. To make Government more effective...