EXECUTIVES: Intuitive Payoff

Many an envious businessman has suspected that his more successful competitors are gifted with a sixth sense—an intuitive ability to foresee the future and make the tough, unexpected decisions that pay off handsomely. Now there is some evidence of a sort that suggests intuition really does pay off.

At last week's meeting in Chicago of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, E. Douglas Dean presented the results of an unusual experiment. Dean, a research associate at the Newark College of Engineering, which is a center for studies of extrasensory perception, conducted a test of 67 high executives, mostly...

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