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Are We Driven More by Instinct or Insight?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Instinct can help us recognize a pattern quickly, but recognition is not necessarily understanding. The danger begins when the speed with which we recognize a problem becomes evidence that we understand it. Much of what we do begins before we have fully thought about it. We sense…
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Discipline and Order versus What Feels Right
Trusting your gut—or intuition—is a form of rapid, subconscious processing that draws on past experiences, patterns, and accumulated knowledge. It is most reliable in situations where expertise has been built over time, in emergencies, or in contexts like lie detection. Physically, it can manifest as a subtle pull or, at times, a gut-churning sensation, often…
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Be still and listen to yourself
The one person we all know well in the Bible is Job. Job represents for many life’s hardships and all that is bad that could possibly happen to a human being in this lifetime. Of course Job’s story is one of hope where in spite of all his losses and afflictions, he comes out of…

