Obama Goes with Head decision-making, not Gut

When describing his executive style, President Obama goes into Spock mode, saying, "You've got to make decisions based on information and not emotions."

This is deffinitely a person who makes decisions with his head and not his gut. I don't know of a better example. Reading this article was the reason I named my blog "headvsgut". Read on.

Stephen Wayne, Georgetown University, said: "He's not an instinctive decision-maker as Bush was. He doesn't go with his gut, he thinks with his head, which I think is desirable" Referring to the Afghanistan decision, Wayne said, "I don't think he is an indecisive person, I just think this is a tough one."

According to Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 11/25/09, states of his critics, "Obama's prolonged Afghanistan review suggests weakness rather than wisdom....Liberal have zinged him as being too cautious, too much of a compromiser. Some of his supporters would like to see him show more fire in the belly and recapture the energy that propelled him to victory."

Obama told Chip Reid of CBS news, "I think the American people understand that my job here is to get it right, and I'm less concerned about the perceptions, about process, than I am at making sure that once a decision is made everybody understands it,,,and we're able to move forward..."

I still am torn between head and gut decisions. Friends say follow your bliss, I say serve your passion. I'm also glad that I don't have to make Obama's decisions, but I like the fact that he thinks about everything before he decides.