"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that is enough" - Robert Heller
Let us say that you arrive at a splendid idea for the next path breaking app in ecommerce. You immediately show it to your friends. They dissect it to the core and tell you it will not work. Hmmmm Now you face a tough decision. Do you go with your guts or your friends’ scientific reasoning? Do you want to go with your gut? Why not? When you look at your statistics, they split the data exactly in the middle. Your gut has worked 50% of the time while the other 50% times it has got it wrong. So what should you do? This analysis, which is based on the past events, certainly seems to be sound and justified. Just wait ... Your gut has only helped you in making many of those dicey decisions which, at some times, looked unsound. When you look at the history, many of the unsound things have only become disruptive hits. Sound ones never do disruption. Dhoni going to Joginder for the last over, Netflix and the other OTT options, Ola taking on the unorganized taxi market, to name a few. So what am I finally saying? The challenge is not in trying to convince those who are in search of soundness to change their minds. The challenge is to only ask them to do a complete gut check to decide whether they should defend their instincts and then do it. Agree with me, what’s your gut feeling?
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AuthorVasudevan is a Leadership Mentor and an Executive coach. I run an online website geared towards helping creative entrepreneurs and future managers to build their dreams. Archives
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