THE INTUITIVE AND

THE STRATEGIC
THINKER
TRENDS, NETWORKS AND CULTURE
 Objectives
1. Explain strategic analysis and
intuitive thinking.
2. Attain skill in strategic analysis.
3. Use intuitive thinking in dealing with
varied activities.
 Strategic Thinking and Intuitive
Thinking Defined
Greg Githens defined strategic thinking as the
individual’s capacity for thinking
conceptually, imaginatively, systematically,
and opportunistically with regard to the
attainment of success in the future.
 Strategic Thinking and Intuitive
Thinking Defined
He continued by saying that strategic thinking employs mental processes
that are conceptual (abstractions using analogy to translate across
contexts), systematic (composed of different components with interfaces
that interact to produce intended or emergent behaviors, pattern finding,
and connecting situations that are not obviously related), imaginative
(creative and visual), and opportunistic (searching for and grasping new
information and value propositions). The strategic thinker applies all of
these cognitive processes in the orientation toward future success.
Strategic Thinking and Intuitive Thinking
Defined
What is Intuitive Thinking
Intuitive thinking is “quick and ready insight”
(Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary).
Intuitive decision-making is far more than
using common sense because it involves
additional sensors to perceive and get aware of
the information from outside. Sometimes, it is
referred to as gut feeling, sixth sense, inner
sense, instinct, inner voice, spiritual guide, etc.
WELL-KNOWN
PEOPLE OF
INTUITION
 1. Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition”

There is no logical way to the

discovery of these elemental
laws. There is only the way of
intuition, which is helped by a
feeling for the order lying
behind the appearance.
 2. John Naisbitt
Intuition becomes
increasingly valuable in the
new information society
precisely because there is so
much data.
 3. Alexis Carrel
“All great men are gifted with intuition. T hey
know without reasoning or analysis what they need
to know”

Intuition comes very close to

clairvoyance; it appears to be
the extrasensory perception
of reality
 4. Henry Reed
“Intuition is the very force or activity of the
soul in its experience through whatever has
been the experience of the soul itself”
It is as if the intuitive sense acting
through the soul is what makes
the raw events into food for the
Soul.
 5. Immanuel Kant
Intuition and concepts
constitute... the elements of all
our knowledge, so that neither
concepts without an intuition in
some way corresponding to
them, nor intuition without
concepts, can yield knowledge.
 6. George Crumb
In general, I feel that the more
rationalistic approaches to pitch-
organization, including specifically
serial technique, have given way
largely, to a more intuitive approach.
 7. Robert Graves
Intuition is the supra-logic
that cuts out all the routine
processes of thought and
leaps straight from the
problem to the answer.
 8. Lao Tzu
The power of intuitive
understanding will protect
you from harm until the end
of your days.
 9. Anne Wilson Schaef
Trusting our intuition often
saves us from disaster.
Uncritical, Selfish,
and Fair-minded
Critical Thinkers
1. Uncritical persons are those who have not developed
intellectual skills; persons who are naïve, conformist,
easily manipulated, often inflexible, easily confused,
typically unclear, narrow- minded, and consistently
ineffective in their use of language. They may have a
good heart but they are not able to skillfully analyze the
problems they face so as to effectively protect their own
interest.
2. Selfish critical persons are skilled thinkers who do not
genuinely accept the values of critical thinking; persons who
use the intellectual skills of critical thinking selectively and
self-deceptively to foster and serve their vested interest (at the
expense of truth). They are typically able to identify flaws in
the reasoning of others and refute them and back up their own
claims with plausible reasons; by doing so they have not
learned how to reason emphatically within points of view with
which they disagree.
3. Fair-minded critical persons are skilled thinkers who do not
accept and honor the values of critical thinking; persons who
use the intellectual skills of critical thinking to accurately
reconstruct the strongest versions of points of view in conflict
with their own and to question deeply their own framework of
thought. They try to find and correct flaws in their own
reasoning and to be scrupulously fair to those whom they
disagree.
Elements of
Reasoning
There are two essential dimensions of
thinking that you need to master in order to
learn how to upgrade your thinking. You need
to be able to identify the “parts” of your
thinking, and you need to be able to assess
these parts of thinking as follows:
 All reasoning has a purpose.
 All reasoning is an attempt to figure something out, to settle some questions, to
solve some problems
 All reasoning is based on assumptions.
 All reasoning is done from some points of view.
 All reasoning is based on data, information, and evidence.
 All reasoning is expressed through, and shaped by concepts and ideas.
 All reasoning contains inferences by which we draw conclusions and give meaning
to data.
 All reasoning leading somewhere has implications and consequences.
 REFERENCES
Mangiduyos, Gladys P. TRENDS, NETWORKS, AND CRITICAL THINKING IN THE 21ST
CENTURY.
Manila:Rex Bookstore
https://trendsnetworkscriticalthinking.wordpress.com/lesson-3/
https://majestyofreason.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/critical-thinking-part-3-elements-of-reasoning/