Intuition and the future
My good friend and creative master Enrico Giraudi wrote a book - INTUITION TECHNOLOGIES: Unlock the of creative potential of your organization -and he asked me to write an introduction to the concept of intuition.
Intuition is probably the most valuable tool we have available to create the future.
We happen to live in a tremendously unique time in the history of humanity. We and our organizations have never had to live and survive in such a state of constant uncertainty.
The lack of reference points is now such a widespread condition that even an article in the Harvard Business Review invites us to read science fiction books to relearn to imagine what awaits us and create it.
Reconnecting with our intuitive resources is an opportunity to move from an immobilizing state of natural fear and uncertainty, to a new state of mind oriented towards coherent and active actions. A state of mind which allow us to feel free, free to create the future we want for us and for our organizations.
If we want to break free from the “old” and predominant management paradigm, which forces us to adapt to the traditional corporate culture, to the stringent and often unrealistic pressures of our workplaces, where we are deprived of the time to think, and evaluate and grow, we must, first of all, reconnect with what is really important to us.
In our rush to act and adapt to change, we have lost the connection with ourselves and our deepest intuition, with what would enable us to identify and make the best decisions. The greater the overdose of information that spills over into us, the more urgent it becomes to create spaces to pause, reflect and re-connect with ourselves.
Pausing? Thinking? But with all that is happening and changing around me, wouldn’t I risk “missing the boat”, missing the opportunities that fleetingly appear around me?
It is precisely this urge to chase all the stimuli that surrounds us that make us slaves to an old system.
This book by Enrico invites us to embrace and promote a new management model based on the reconnection with ourselves, with our natural times and ways, with our true needs and priorities. A way to discover the best ways to evolve the organizations we manage, or work in, following more authentic, natural and no less effective “business functions”.
This model is applied by finding and using our intuition.
I hope that this book will help you rekindle the joy of walking in your own footsteps, of starting a new life or a new project, feeling in control of the future you want to create.
