Strategic Intuition Quotes

“Expert intuition relies on your own experience, while strategic intuition draws on the experience of everyone else in the world as well.”
― William Duggan, Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

“He explains in four steps how coup d’oeil happens: examples from history, presence of mind, the flash of insight itself, and resolution.”
― William Duggan, Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

“This is the most telling distinction of all. No matter how much analytical tasks in the real world depend on expert intuition, there is a difference between doing a task and deciding which task to do. Expert intuition helps you fight a fire, but does it help you decide which fire to fight? Does expert intuition tell you how to organize your firehouse to be ready to fight the right fires or to decide where to put your firehouse in the first place? Expert intuition makes you better at tactics, but what makes you better at strategy? Expert intuition works for familiar situations, but what about new ones? What good is expert intuition—drawing elements from the past—when the future is unpredictable? If you automatically apply the past to the future, and the future is different, you’re making a big mistake. That’s where strategy comes in. Expert intuition works for the small picture but not the big one. For the bigger picture we need something else.”
― William Duggan, Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement