Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

by William Duggan

Book Overview

How "Aha " really happens. When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night," or "In the shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, "Aha I see what to do." Brain science now reveals how these flashes of insight happen. It's a special form of intuition. We call it strategic intuition, because it gives you an idea for action-a strategy. Brain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231142684
• ISBN13: 9780231142687
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Eye opening book

This book along with good to great have been two of the best books I read in business. This offers a new insight they don`t teach in business schools Enjoy it

Excellent and creative insights on a challenging topic

I've heard Prof. Duggan give talks on this book twice in the past year or so, and I've also studied the book in detail (It is a very popular course in the Columbia B-School curriculum as well). I think it provides a great high-level overview of the creative process, something that is admittedly difficult to get our arms around. By exploring examples from military history to the art world to the formation of world-changing companies, Duggan keeps us enthralled while offering a different approach for tackling our own creative challenges. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Strategic Intuition is Great

Awesome book! Anyone in a leadership position should read it. As a leadership consultant I refer to it in coaching and recommend it to clients. The insight the author provides is great for leaders who are in strategic planning roles. Buy it - you won't be disappointed.

A must read for anyone doing strategy

I teach strategy in graduate business school and have done so for over twenty years. I routinely judge strategy books to be without much practical use. This book takes an entirely different approach from most others and is thoroughly successful. Rather than simply tell stories or provide backward looking analytical tools, Prof. Duggan takes you inside great strategy decisions and shows how they were made. The first one he details is amazing, but it takes several before you really understand what it is all about. The more the better, as each example shows the thoughtful reader yet another way the concepts work. A must read for anyone who wants to work on making better decisions, rather than just analyzing those from the past. This book has the potential to change the way we think about strategic decisions. Many students who have read it have reported to me they are unable to put it down.