Daniel Goleman

And, you know, you see it like years later, wherever they are, as seen through the eyes, by the way, of other people, which is very important because we can fool ourselves.

Well, Simon, I don't know about your gut, and I don't know about my gut, but we do get those feelings, and they may or they may not be true.

So one argument is that the mind...

holds more information than it tells us consciously.

That is, that we know more than we realize.

And that gut feeling may be an intuition that you should act on because it's based on really good information.

On the other hand, that gut feeling may be based on some bias or some fear or some anxiety.

And so you shouldn't necessarily trust it.

I think self-awareness may be important here in trying to distinguish

Well, should I trust my gut or should I not?

If you think you're basing it on good data, good information, go ahead.

A lot of entrepreneurs, for example, will swear by gut feeling.

And a lot of businesses go belly up because the entrepreneur's gut feeling wasn't right.

So it can go either way.

So one kind of leader is a very inspiring leader who can speak from the heart to the heart.

who really moves people because he's able to sense not just what he believes or she believes, but what other people will be moved by and articulate it that way.

These are very powerful kinds of leaders.

Another kind of leader, very different style, is command and control leader.

Someone who says, do it my way, I'm the boss.

Mm-hmm.