The truly calm leader knows when to become more directive, knows how long to wait before committing a reserve, and knows when to exploit success. The calm leader is at peace with fear, danger, and confusion. The calm leader can sort through this array of conditions and apply his mental talent in any situation. Comprehensive is a characteristic rarely used in contemporary leadership lexicon. The term is descriptive.
Understanding is a small part of comprehensive.
The real meaning is in the depth and breadth with which a leader attends to the smallest details. However, the detail is not as important as the fact that the comprehensive leader is wise enough to consider an array of details across areas relevant to a decision or situation. The Core Characteristics of an Officer's Intuition Now consider the marginal genius who may possess two of the three characteristics in some combination. Figure 2 depicts a Venn diagram of intuition showing the interrelated characteristics modeled by the overlapping circles that define the three facets of Clausewitz's definition of intuition. The intersection of each cylinder models the following core characteristics.