Intuition @ Work: & at Home and at Play [Hardcover]

James Wanless (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2002

Intuition @ Work is full of James Wanless's tried and true wisdom on how to wring success from life at all levels. Using the workplace as his main focus, he reveals the inner workings of intuition and how it can be utilized to create an authentic life by first "feeling the feeling." Businesspeople must look to the future, be innovative, make difficult decisions in uncertain conditions, be adroit at handling relationships, and keep moving with action and energy under the pressure of performance - all qualities that intuition feeds. Wanless introduces techniques he's developed: * symbolic picture taking, * strategic story telling, * creative walking, * deliberate dreaming, * truth humming, * intellectual loafing. Intuitive fitness is ours when we follow these practices daily. Wanless shows how intuition can improve careers and relationships, and make decisions that ring true to intention. The book is punctuated with quotes from thinkers like Einstein, Paul Gauguin, Helen Keller, Walt Disney, and Emily Dickinson, among many others.

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About the Author

James Wanless, Ph.D., is a former political science professor and creator of the best-selling Voyager Tarot. A popular keynote speaker and seminar leader, Wanless travels throughout the US, Europe, and Australia educating attendees in creativity, intuition, and leadership. His other books include Way of the Great Oracle and Little Stone.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel (May 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590030125
• ISBN-13: 978-1590030127
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,725,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Wanless, PhD (Political Science, Columbia University) is an internationally recognized and best selling author, keynote speaker, futurist and consultant. He is an internationally known coach and creativity consultant, teaching strategic goal-setting and innovation techniques to corporations and individuals worldwide.

This dynamic speaker and educator explores re-energizing mind, heart, body and spirit for personal and professional balance and growth, the foundations necessary for ultimate social, economic and environmental sustainable evolution.

With his magical blend of personal charisma, humor and pragmatic enthusiasm, he is thought of as a "corporate shaman" and an internationally known authority on intuition.

James speaks and trains throughout the world with leaders and companies with the creative right-brain processes in his book, Intuition@Work.

James' expertise stems from a deep understanding of holistic, human potential systems, best demonstrated through his newest deck, Sustain Yourself Cards & Handbook to Live Well and Live Long, and his best-selling Voyager Tarot: Intuition Cards for the 21st Century, one of the most popular modern decks.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Wait for a Cricket, May 16, 2002

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Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intuition @ Work: & at Home and at Play (Hardcover)

If I correctly understand Wanless' core ideas in this book, intuition is always "@ work." The challenge is to access it, nourish it, and be guided by it...usually in combination with one or more other resources such as emotional intelligence which Daniel Goleman discusses so brilliantly in Emotional Intelligence, Working With Emotional Intelligence, and most recently published Primal Leadership, co-authored with Annie McKee and Richard E. Boyatzis.

How to describe Wanless' book? First of all, extensive research (his and others') has convinced him that intuition may well be the single most important, and potentially the most valuable, of all resources available to human beings as they struggle to understand themselves and the world in which they live and work. For most of us, we prefer to rely on our powers of reasoning, our personal experiences, and the judgment of others to make decisions, to assign value, and to select goals to pursue. As a result, we can sometimes deny or ignore what Wanless characterizes as a "life force" within each of us and thereby forfeit "extraordinary, perhaps even revolutionary, ways of comprehending ourselves." I am reminded of the key point Ernest Becker makes in Denial of Death: Although no one can deny physical death, there is another death which we can deny. That is the death which occurs when we become wholly preoccupied with fulfilling others' expectations of us. Wanless asserts (and I agree) that trusting one's intuition can help us to identify and then fulfill what we expect of ourselves.

This book also provides a wealth of carefully selected quotations from various sources which are strategically placed within chapters which examine the potential "rewards" of intuition; what Wanless calls "the intuitive imperative"; intuitive decision-making, action, intention, vision, innovation, communication, fitness, and energy; and finally, "The Intuitive Future Life: A New Way of Being." Obviously, the purpose of including the quotations is to reassure the reader that, for many of the most thoughtful and influential persons, intuition is given great value. Among all the hundreds of quotations, my personal favorites include:

"There is something within you that knows more than you know." (Rochelle Myers)

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." (Audre Lorde)

"A great many think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James)

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." (Anais Nin)

"I shut my eyes in order to see." (Paul Gauguin)

This is a book which increases in value each time it is re-read. Although it has direct and practical relevance to the workplace, it can also help its reader (if receptive) to use the power of intuition to guide, nourish, and enrich her or his personal life. Wanless includes several hundred specific suggestions, drills, insights, and reassurances which -- collectively -- reveal and inform the potential power of intuition. The adjective "potential" is crucial to realizing the responsibility each person must assume. Wanless seems absolutely convinced that each and every reader can fulfill what is for most of us a latent and under-developed but nonetheless immensely promising source of wisdom and (yes) strength.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiration., August 5, 2009

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Brizdaz (Brisbane,Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intuition @ Work: & at Home and at Play (Hardcover)

I'm not giving this book five stars because it is a well written work,I'm giving it five stars because of the important ideas which is contained amongst it's pages.
An important book to read and have on your book shelf,even if it is only to remind you (like a wall-mounted motivational poster)to rely more on your intuition,instead of wishing you had.