This post was co-written by Justine Saavedra and Tchiki Davis. Intuition can be a difficult concept to define—it is sometimes described as the sixth human sense. It happens when your brain quickly ...

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, we’ve all been sternly warned about the risks of employing intuition when making important decisions. In his book Blink, ...

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Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix, shifted the business from DVD rentals to streaming services in the mid-2000s. At the time, the DVD business was still profitable, and the streaming market was in ...

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