What should we do when our intuition clashes with our analysis in an important decision? Stick with analysis? Go with intuition? How to decide? Consider John, who is a promising 35-year-old manager at ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Steven Cost As leaders, ...

We live in a data-driven society that increasingly requires us to focus on logic, hard facts, and tangible proof to rationalize our decisions. But some of the world’s most successful leaders, ...

From a steady sense of calm or unease that won't go away to an unshakeable pull toward (or away from) certain choices, these soul-deep signals act like an internal compass.

My best friend had planned an epic 40th-birthday celebration: a girls’ trip to a wine festival in Italy. While the trip itself sounded heavenly, my feelings leading up to it were hellish. The plan was ...

We all have intuition or inner wisdom, but we may be in the habit of pushing it aside. Rachel Gilbertson of the Art of Presence says that may because intuition lives in our bodies, not our minds. She ...

Do you make decisions using your intuition—or is it actually “misintuition”? Here’s what researchers are learning about how to make better choices. An illustrated view of the human nervous system, ...