ESP for Executives

ESP for Executives

Applied ESP: Managing and problem solving with the aid of the unconscious

by John Mihalasky

Prof. Mihalasky was Director of the PSI Communications Project at the Newark College of Engineering (formerly the New Jersey Institute of Technology), from 1962 to 1972. In 1973 he coauthored the groundbreaking book Executive ESP detailing the results and findings of their reserach.

In the last few years it has become increasingly difficult for business and industry to stay competitive. Critics charge that there is too much reliance on "short-term thinking" and on the fear of taking risks.

With more data being generated by more and more computers, there has been a tendency to slip into a posture of "managing by the numbers." The emphasis has been on the use of rationality and logic in problem solving and decision making - operations research, management science, modeling, and the development of computers that "think."

Unfortunately, all this has given us more and more incorrect, invalid, and/or unreliable data, faster, to make decisions whose outcomes have been correct about as many times as when we made decisions by holding a wet finger up to the wind.

It is my contention that this state of affairs is due to the fact that not enough has been done to investigate the application of non-logical, non-rational, unconscious thinking. We have spent most of our time on rational, logical, conscious thinking and it is (has been for a long time) necessary to delve into the use of the unconscious.

The purpose of what follows is to explore the basis for the use of the unconscious - ESP, if you will - in the problem solving and decision making process.

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