Sixth Sense

“Leadership is an improvisational art. There is no recipe” according to the leadership professors who wrote The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. And although there are some clear principles that must be learned whenever we are dealing with people the practice is always as much art as it is science.

I find that as young leaders are learning their (leadership) craft one of the skills that has to be developed is that sixth sense of when something is not quite as it is being told to us. Verne Harnish talks about the need to ‘feed and train our gut’ in order to make better decisions.

Often times decisions come from our gut. We need to feed and train it to recognise fact from fiction. I have had several examples this week where clients have reported sensing that what they are being told doesn’t quite stack up.

Of course the more data available to them the better. This will only enhance their pattern recognition which, I suspect, is what that sixth sense really relies on.

For that sixth sense to be truly useful, we must constantly calibrate it otherwise it will degenerate into a personal and ill informed bias.

So the questions for this week are;

• How well do you listen to your gut feeling?
• How accurate does that gut feeling prove to be?
• What are you consciously doing to calibrate your gut feeling?
• Are you training and feeding your gut with real data or old wives tales?

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