Many of us get the evil eye from spouses when we can't stop clicking away on our Blackberries or other smart devices. This is particularly vexing at meals or other times that should be family time. None of this is surprising, it's easy to understand how annoying this is and how it interferes with interpersonal relationships. But what about at work? It's okay to show how efficient we are at multitasking by taking our electronic devices everywhere, right?

In an earlier post I shared some wisdom from scholars Gary Klein of MacroCognition and Princeton's Daniel Kahneman, who were interviewed in the McKinsey Quarterly. Both agree that intuition in decision making is overrated. Kahneman went as far as to tell the Quarterly, "My advice would be to try to postpone intuition as much as possible."