Based on the demographic data of those who provided this optionally (n=242) we may conclude that yes, women tend to use their intuition somewhat more frequently (‘very often‘ – dark green column on the chart – : men 39%, women 52%).

At the same time, the cumulated ratio of ‘often’ + ‘very often’ – white column on the chart – is very close to each other (men 84%, women 90%).  This means that this second myth is also busted. Men listen to their intuition almost as often as women do.

Then why do we have this pre-concept? We can only assume. Are men usually expected to be more factual and women more emotionally engaging? It probably depends on the culture and the social climate we live in. In the middle ages and before that, men usually had to swing the sword and be ‘quite critically factual’ about it. Still, the martial arts fighters/ boxers/ people in special forces even today explain that they have to feel the enemy and catch their thoughts before they act. Over the millennia of development we walked through, women traditionally had to continuously feel what happened with their children and get to them when they felt something was not right. Because their bodies were not as robust as men’s, they had to use their brains and outsmart raw power. Today these roles are getting mixed – depending on the societies we live in -, still, what remains is that we all need both logic and intuition.

From this current survey, we finally know, that we all use our intuition often, which is not dependent on our gender. This is a human quality we all have that is worth nurturing and improvement.

Why is this author a good fit to write this book?

After doing his two bachelors at the same time this author got his first job at Canon, where – as the CEO said – he took over forty percent of the CEO’s tasks. Still, not until four years later in his second position, as a member of the board of  Samsung he gained the real multinational experience.

It all started here. While he lead the major department of Samsung in three countries and achieved market share #1 all important product categories, he had to also experience the cost of it. Right in the beginning, the recruiter told him:”if you survive this place, you can survive any place.” She was right, and at that time she did not know, that in the korean Samsung HQ people call each other with military titles. Once, on a bright sunny day, after eliminating the arguments of few people with different ideas with factually powerful verbal reasoning, he went to the office kitchen to get a warm cappuccino. As he was walking back to his open-office desk – sitting close to the vice-president – a lightning-like thought glistered up is his mind. “Why are we killing each other here? Someone painted a dream-like target-number on our inner frontal lobe, and we are doing everything to achieve it like hunting dogs?” “We live to work or we work to live?

From that time on he did not take part in internal political games which were not win-win for both sides, not even for the request of his boss, the VP. Few months later, after almost four years at Samsung he found in his new position, leading NBCUniversal’s operations. Reporting for the London HQ, he was much freer in his decisions and with his time. He used this for his own personal development, and to start a snow-ball-like activity to benefit people.

He called twelve of his leader and entrepreneur friends in business, invited them to lounge cafe with a long table, placed a huge LCD TV at the end of the table and presented them his idea: let us create a human quality movement that makes life and work happier, while keeping the responsibility factor. The team grew, became international, and finally a team German, Danish, Swedish, British and Hungarian professionals. They had many many years of experience on their fields, with respected titles as MBA, PhD, PhD hc. They were led by Michael Fuchs, the founder of awareness intelligence concept, whom this author considers to be his mentor. The team put together the backbone of a leadership and culture development program called Responsible Happiness Development Program. The author placed the muscles and skin on the skeleton and dressed it up by fine-tuning the concepts and by creating the training material. He established the company Happiness Consulting to carry this activity, that soon grew to Happiness Guardian Holding thanks to the gratitude of organizational leaders and human resources directors.

While testing the opportunities to open in ASEAN countries in cooperation with the adult institute of Open University Malaysia an Indian leadership trainer Masilamany Ramasamy suggested to write down the know-how in a form of a book. Finding this a good idea, the author organized a contract with a Florida/US based publisher. He wrote the manuscript, submitted it for the first editorial round, but this is when another lightning-like happened. As he was staying more than one year in Germany to do some mind-development learning and to round up the Responsible Happiness method he got into a good friendship with a psychologist, who was working at a Bavarian psychiatry & rehabilitation clinic which recovered several CEOs. He asked this psychologist lady to provide an opinion about his manuscript. Sabine expressed her kind opinion, that this is really a unique, above-the-top Michelin quality recipe to improve leaders and culture, still, it is is vastness she does not feel “the kick” about which a CEO can say: “yesss, THIS is the really cool and unique thing that I get”. It is not easy to pick out one dish from a royal table, as everything tastes phenomenal. This respective author understood the message. Although it looked very simple dish like an omelette he picked out the pinnacle of the dishes, professional intuition. ‘Let this be followed’ – he thought. So, he drew a line, rewrote the whole book from scratch and titled metaphorically ‘the best omelette of the world served with additional royal side-dishes’, ‘Shoot From The Hip – Professional Intuition In Decision-Making’.

The additional research went very easy and fast due to his more than twenty years of regular meditation practice. Reading and walking through an additional few hundred books went fast – alone the philosophy article includes the essence of 78 books read and additional 318 walked through -. It takes some energy and few years, still, it is easy to proceed, when one has the motivation to help others. When one reached at least a half step further in a certain topic than others, one can help others start taking the next one.

This way, the multinational business leadership experience of an international team of experts, several books, countless researches selected, the many years of training and coaching experience of developing human happiness and awareness in leadership and organizational culture, and more than twenty years of regular meditation experience merged in this very book. The kind reader gets a bucket of gold value for a small price.

This is not just a metaphor. The worldwide utilization value of the content of this book was officially valuated by an independent valuation expert. It says, that in case only 1 percent of the worldwide businesses would implement the content of this book in their leadership and culture, it would result a level of worldwide growth, that in case we take only its 1 percent as the sales value of this integrative invention-system, it would worth $84B (yes, 84 billion USD). We will get this value utilized on the financial markets further on, still, this is also, what the kind reader gets, for a price of a book.

So, what is (professional) intuition and why we need it?

Intuition in general, when discussed separately from the scientific definition, intuition can be described as an inner voice, a sense of spontaneous insight, a sense of anticipation, a natural sixth sense we all have, a mystically “cloud-derived” ability, a glimpse into the future, listening to our hearts, a surprising “aha” moment, eye-opening information out of the blue, or even as a spontaneous inner feeling, thought or idea that reveals something to us that we have not known before.
When talking about its use in leadership, decision-making, and all-in-all at the workplace, it manifests as professional intuition. From this perspective, it is mainly connected to what we do for a living. It explains our ability to figure out the full picture of the truth from small parts, signs, bits and pieces of “bread crumbs”. It aims to be able to tell what will happen in case of different decisions we may take connected to our work.
This article series explains and helps to develop both overall intuition and professional intuition.
We will have spontaneous, intuitive knowledge, not many have around us. People can’t lie to us; our success grows due to the more accurate, precise decisions we make then we made before.
While reading this article series, we will probably be sharing this with those we love and care for because we wish them to have a more meaningful life, human quality improvement, connections, and probably material/ financial growth as well.

How did we came to the conclusion to simplify complexity with intuition?

Many people have similar or the same world-saving intentions as this sincere author. Most probably, the kind reader has this in the back of her/his mind as well. We want to do something good for us all. We want to take responsibility for the progressive development of our society and our shared future. With this in mind, most of us reading this article-series accumulated a wide range of knowledge that allows us to step-by-step fulfill this endeavor. Everyone has their own plan. Sometimes, fulfillment happens with a spontaneous jump; sometimes, it follows a stairway-like plan.
On the one hand, we may expand our knowledge of areas that improve our outer skills, like organization methods, project management, lean, etc. On the other hand, we may turn inwards and improve our human qualities essential in leadership. People look up only to those with better qualities, from whom they can learn from. People want to learn from their bosses; therefore, they want/ accept only those leaders they can learn from.
The more comprehensive our inner and outer perspective is the broader aspects of decisions we can consider to make confidently.
Our integrative approach towards the knowledge we gathered has slowly evolved. It has become a prerequisite for understanding the essence of complex-, multi-factor-, multi-disciplinary structures, comparing their features, information, and benefits into a strategically inclusive solution. Meeting the needs of these evolving leadership trends, Integrative Systems Thinking has become a new-, independent-, supportive science.
Integrative Systems Thinking says that it is worth examining every single effecting factor that can influence our decision in any way. Outer and inner elements, both. In the field of analysis and leadership decisions, it expands our interest towards aspects that have not been considered till now. In the area of leadership, human/HR strategy, and in decision-making overall, it gives a greater insight into the “chemistry” of human connections, i.e., analyzing the quality of personal and community sympathy, team spirit, the feeling of working together (morphogenetic fields), and broadens our interest in the direction of emerging emotions and insights (intuition). As our interest and wisdom expanded beyond the compulsory knowledge, we more and more admired the advocates who, while not only thinking in everyday conceptual or intellectual structures, devoted considerable time to develop and interpret their revolutionary ideas of synthesis, coherence, non-duality, holism, and totality that resulted in their life and professional activities work better. We admire those who inspire and help us.

We did not mention the recently revealed documents of different national security bodies from the USA to Russia and other parts of the world that show: each strong nation had and has at least a program to improve remote sighting to support military or political leadership with their intuitive insights.We either arrive to the topic of intuition from the scientific-, technological-, cinematic entertainment-, military-, or the ‘inner’ philosophical directions, one thing is for sure: intuition is reality. It is not only in the movies. We have it, we use it – 80 percent of us often or very often -, and we can develop it.

Maybe because this sincere author watched too many sci-fi movies and read too much from Stephen Hawking’s works, he would like to propose the following with this mindset.

Just as we see in specific cinematic arts of experience, in some civilizations, citizens acquire doctorate-level knowledge in each primary subject of science that exists. Similarly, we humans can copy the same. We could extract the integrative essence of the different science fields to avoid having the situation that “the left hand does not know what the right hand does”. Just as integrative thinking helped the different health sectors communicate with each other (e.g., parasitology with gastroenterology, cardiology, and dietetics) to come to a joint solution in healing, we may come to a conclusion as well in terms of understanding intuition based on the different scientific areas.