Gut vs. Data: The Real-World Balancing Act in Family Business Decisions
Drawing on Decades of Experience to Know When to Trust Your Instincts and When to Run The Numbers. On this week’s episode of Mixing Family and Business: What It Really Takes to Run Multiple Businesses, I sat down with Kim, Shirley, and Tom to reminisce about our earliest cars and, more importantly, to dig into the age-old challenge of balancing gut instincts with cold, hard data when making business decisions. Pulling from decades of real-world experience across several ventures, we explored just how experience, mistakes, and a few “let’s just try it” moments shaped the intuition that guides us today. In this post, I’m expanding on our lively conversation, offering my own take and further insights for anyone trying to navigate uncertain business choices.

