It’s Not the Numbers, It’s the Context

Is big data turning American executives into wimps? Have the barnstorming, manage-from-the-gut days of leaders like Bob Lutz and Jack Welch gone the way of the V8 engine and the incandescent light bulb? In an era when an algorithm can weigh the risks, optimize the upside and improve the statistical odds of success, who needs instincts anymore?

We all do. And perhaps now more than ever.