5 Reasons Leaders Have Trouble Trusting Their Instincts

5 Reasons Leaders Have Trouble Trusting Their Instincts When leaders are faced with new challenges such as this, they often rely on their instincts to make decisions. I?ve learned that trusting your instincts is often in direct proportion to your ability to detect probability patterns in the behaviors, circumstances and tendencies that are bound to transpire. When you don?t trust yourself or understand the situation at hand, your past experiences and the facts surrounding the situation will often influence you to take a stand against your instincts and the negative consequences that you sense (your gut feeling). As is often the case in such a predicament, the results don?t work in your favor and people begin to question your leadership judgment.