ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1975, on a small farm in the Perigord region of France, the author read Robert Ornstein's The Psychology of Consciousness, a popular account of the findings on the two hemispheres of the human brain. In reading Ornstein's book, he came to realize that he had really been celebrating intuition in his own research, uncovering it in all kinds of odd and clandestine places. This was at odds with the mainline management literature—applied no less than academic—that emphasized, almost to the point of obsession, the role of analysis in organizations, especially under so-called professional management. The author provides answers to three questions around the theme of the specialization of the hemispheres of the human brain. Scientists have known for a long time that the brain has two distinct hemispheres. They have known, further, that the left hemisphere controls movements on the body's right side while the right hemisphere controls movements on the left.
