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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel.

And this is Hello Monday, a show where I investigate the changing nature of work

and how that work is changing us.

And today I want to talk about intuition, your gut.

It's that ability to understand something rather than relying on just your conscious reasoning.

In business and in life, it often gets a bad rap.

I found this clip of Angela Arendt's giving a TEDx talk on the subject many years ago.

Why is it that we value thinking over feeling?

Why aren't we taught to follow our natural inclinations,

to protect the possibilities instead of just accepting the probabilities?

By any measure, Angela is one of the most accomplished business leaders of all time.

She came up in fashion and in 2006 turned around a failing burberry.

And just when things were going great, Angela did something unexpected.

Five years ago, she gave up the CEO job and joined Apple as head of retail.

On paper, it was a move that didn't make any sense.

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