Disorganised or intuitive?

Is muddling through a strength or liability in team culture?

The SOPs are in place. The job plans are written. A fully staffed, experienced team poised to execute. What could go wrong?

The other day a colleague quipped ‘sometimes it helps to be last minute!’. She meant it as an insight, not an excuse. The implication being that something useful happens in the unplanned moment, something that doesn't survive planning.

Intuition can’t be SOP'd. Keep the procedures and refer to the job plans, but neither can replace what your whole being (or team) can formulate.

Some ask their gut, others a felt sense. If it’s so powerful why isn’t it in the SOPs and job plans? Intuition by definition evades captivity. How do you relate to yours?