[The following is an excerpt from my book entitled Seven Seconds or Less: From Gut Feeling to Bottom Line in Challenging Areas of Business. Originally written in 2004 and published in 2013, this case study offers a peek at the nuts and bolts of intuitive applications for business and frontier science.] _________________________________________________ A somewhat unusualContinue reading “The Nuts and Bolts of New Product Development Using Intuitive Tools”
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Good Intention, Even When We Drive Each Other Crazy
Bamboo Heart. Photo by Helen L. Stewart Bamboo Heart Think of one person in your work life who drives you absolutely nuts. Take the very first name that pops into your head, even if that name is a surprise to you. You may have thought rationally that dealing with someone else was harder, but ifContinue reading “Good Intention, Even When We Drive Each Other Crazy”
What If My Intuition Doesn’t Work?
Sometimes – rarely – your intuitive guidance doesn’t work for you as well as usual, or as well as you would like. Perhaps you are not focused sufficiently (did you remember to take that breath?); or perhaps the buddy you ask for help can’t help; or perhaps that client just doesn’t want to hear whatContinue reading “What If My Intuition Doesn’t Work?”
Europe Divided
Fight for Survival From a private email, written by me on 11 December 2011, now formally On the Record: “Europe falls apart. Does not disappear, but falls apart as a coherent identity. There is great fear here, and that fear is well founded. Germanic influence, including Hapsburg control of the British Crown, means that theContinue reading “Europe Divided”
A Different View of Our Sun
As a non-physicist, it is difficult for me to find appropriate language for the intuitive sense that triggered this piece. So I will just put it On the Record for now, hoping that some more advanced minds than mine will be able to make sense of it. There are quite literal and material universes “trapped”Continue reading “A Different View of Our Sun”
Futuristic Aerial Control of Water and Weather
Written on 7 August 2012: Paying attention to the simultaneity of severe flooding in some regions of the world, along with severe drought in others, has got me thinking. Now On the Record: A technology can and will eventually be developed that will have the effect of what I will call “aerial vacuuming,” or gathering,Continue reading “Futuristic Aerial Control of Water and Weather”
A New Voice: “Tea Party” to “Arab Spring” to “Take Back Wall Street” to…???
The following was written on 16 November 2010 about the emerging Tea Party Movement, now On The Record. Hindsight renders a natural “of course” response to these thoughts now almost two years later, but at the time of writing none of this was clear yet. The ramifications of this primarily domestic movement continue to reverberateContinue reading “A New Voice: “Tea Party” to “Arab Spring” to “Take Back Wall Street” to…???”
“She Goes on Her Own…” Literal or Metaphorical Meaning?
It is important to discern whether intuitive hunches are meant to be interpreted quite literally, or whether they should be taken as a clue related to something else that is not meant to be literal at all. Stories abound of dreams and other types of premonitions about the World Trade Center collapse, a stock marketContinue reading ““She Goes on Her Own…” Literal or Metaphorical Meaning?”
Insights Leading Up to the October 2008 Stock Market Crash
The following are excerpts from a series of private emails I wrote during the period December 2007 through September 2008, foreshadowing major events of global proportion that would impact the financial markets. The “Crash of October 2008” officially began on October 6th of that year, but some accounts state that the crash actually began onContinue reading “Insights Leading Up to the October 2008 Stock Market Crash”
Fracking and Other Tales of Mass Destruction
Website Blog Piece written on 1 August 2011, emailed privately on 4 August 2011; reprinted here in unedited form, following the 5.9 August 23rd 2011 earthquake in Virginia. Now officially “On the Record.” “Each one feels it is the only, its cause the most important. Each finds a way to rumble beneath the growing discomfortContinue reading “Fracking and Other Tales of Mass Destruction”