How is your company doing? Are you using all the resources available to help it thrive? Intuition is an essential component for business success. In this depressed economy it’s as important as ever that you play the intuition card. Every possible resource needs to be considered and genuine intuitive information is dead on accurate. Companies that use employees’ gut feelings and minds’ eye, along with accumulated knowledge and experience, are the ones that thrive in a depressed economy.

A successful business person is intuitive. It isn’t a choice. It’s a given. Whether the business you are involved in consists of one person or thousands, intuition is a vital ingredient for achievement.

While book knowledge, education, and experience are essential, intuition also helps guide the most talented employers and employees. Poor decisions are made when one follows a business model based on what has worked in the past while ignoring intuitive impressions.

Favorable outcomes depend on using every bit of input available, and in any group, some individuals are more intuitive than others. Spotting the most intuitive people and using their intuition is part of a formula for success. It would be a shame to waste that resource merely because that person or those individuals do not ordinarily have a powerful say in business decisions.

Whose intuition guides a business? Maybe it’s the boss who is guiding a thriving enterprise or perhaps the right people have been hired to keep it on a steady, prosperous course.

If the company is floundering it is important to brainstorm and allow the suggestions and opinions of everyone to emerge. It may be the secretary who usually has to follows orders with the direct intuitive information to help the business recover and thrive. Even if the company is doing well, it will do better when intuitive information is sought out and considered.

Brainstorming is a good tool for bringing out intuition. Everyone’s input is gathered and recorded right on the spot. This is an easy technique for thinking outside the box, the box being a limited notion of how things must be done. Novel ideas come out because everyone is given permission to add ideas, even if they seem pretty outrageous. From this messy soup of possibilities, ideas emerge that help grow the business.

If you are currently unemployed or desire to start your own business, your intuition can help guide you to the right business, timing, location, employees, and everything else.

Shala Kilmer