Minds and Managers: On the Dual Nature Of Human Information Processing

In this paper we present a concept of dual human information processing as an aid to understanding the decision styles and decision strategies o f managers. Several threads of thought are woven together: neurological studies of “split-brain” persons, Jung’s typology of personality, and philosophical explanations of human duality. The resulting framework differentiates a range of leftto right-hemisphere-dominant decision styles and integrates four decision strategies expressed as approaches to the person and the environment.