ABSTRACT
This chapter endeavors to share some of the author's personal perspectives and experiences in trusting intuition for executive decision making. One of the frequent expectations of executives is to lead an organization forward, into the unknown. Executives must prognosticate in order to optimally position the organization for what is to come. Maturity and experience sometimes brings with them wisdom. Decision making, then, is rooted in the diagnostic thinking practices of mentally organizing phenomena as they relate to the greater known context. For the executive acting from a place informed by contemplative practice, it is also informed after having cultivated space for the wisdom of the heart to translate into an intuition. Risk is inured to the work of executives. But an executive can become more comfortable with risk when trusting an embodied way of knowing the world in which they take part. The chapter concludes that wisdom lives in the heart while knowledge appears to live in the mind.
