Or is leadership today really more about instinct and luck?

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The day before, I asked the champion trainer about his instinct (my favourite question) as to whether the horse's never-tested stamina would last out the distance.

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It's the price we pay for demanding mirror-finish touchscreens, we guess, but we think we still managed to convey a fair bit about the Instinct's distinctive user interface here.

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Just as women can be brutally unfoolable about other women, most men have a shrewd instinct about other men's reliability.

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My instinct about this whole situation is that you have to believe in people.

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Before getting into the details of the Instinct, a few words about the new iPhone, its main competition.

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And what I found most striking about this conversation was the overarching agreement that firms need to act on the instinct that mobile presents a revolutionary change.

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Ben Kingsley is the instinct-squelching teacher, who passes his own fear and loathing about winning and losing to his student, while Laurence Fishburne is the intuitive one, a Washington Square Park speed-chess freak who inspires exuberant invention.

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The usual British position about the way to handle disagreements with the Americans, exaggerated by Mr Blair's instinct for getting on with people, is that real influence depends on saying what has to be said behind closed doors.

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The younger one was actually a decent tennis player with a killer instinct, but decided, as had her older sister before her, that there was something uncool about being competitive.

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