WHISPERS

This book provides a research-backed, yet fun and practical, guide to gut feel, debunking and reconciling the varied perspectives on gut feel and how people use it.

It's one of the most polarizing pieces of advice that we hear: "Go with your gut." But wouldn't it be nice to know just when to follow our gut and ignore all the data? Or alternatively, to know which situations our gut feel might be biased and leading us astray - such that we should be collecting more analytical data to cross-check our feelings?

We don't know whether gut feel is a magical superpower (à la Blink) or the product of biased heuristics (in the tradition of Thinking, Fast & Slow). This book provides a research-backed - yet fun and practical - guide to gut feel, debunking and reconciling the varied perspectives on gut feel and how people use it. It provides a roadmap for how we can all hone our own gut feel from things already at our disposal - our lived childhood, our past experiences, our family values and cultural background, our felt emotions, and our everyday interpersonal interactions - to create workplace and personal success.
In a world that is filled with increasingly loud opinions, we can rely on listening more to what whispers and not what screams.

Laura Huang is a Professor of Management and Organizational Dynamics. She has held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School, and currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Faculty Director of the Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative at Northeastern University, and on the board of Wharton Alumni Angels. She is the author of the international bestseller Edge.