Seat-of-the-pants driving has taken on a new twist thanks to Nissan, which is offering free two-tone leather trim with heated front seats to all customers who buy a Micra SX before the end of the year.
From the bitter Arctic to the scalding red centre of Australia, via countless
seat-of-the-pants circumnavigations, there's lots of history and anecdote to fascinate on these pages.
The average time to get comfortable in flying the aircraft is 700 to 800 hours in order to develop the proper
seat-of-the-pants feel.
Logging in the Southwest has gone from a thriving, deadly industry to a small-scale,
seat-of-the-pants operation," Suckling says.
According to Audley, the administration's
seat-of-the-pants experience performing environmental reviews during the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992-1993, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1994, and an initiative for accelerated tariff liberalization in the forest products sector in 1999 highlighted a need for a formal, structured approach to assessing environmental risks from trade.
He couldn't keep it up forever--the urgent tone, the
seat-of-the-pants feel of cinema verite, the sense of vast structures crumbling around us; he was by then forty-five, and the culture, too, was changing.
Some outfits may be a bit frizzy if they're used to
seat-of-the-pants solutions, like simply throwing bandwidth at problems.
Although the fly-on-the-wall documentary series was not the cause of the Royal Opera House's problems, it alerted a broad viewing public to backstage crises, financial brinkmanship, and
seat-of-the-pants management decisions.
Although Brown had no specific venture capital experience, his
seat-of-the-pants entrepreneurial talents and business background in computers, land development, advertising and telecommunications seemed to fit the HVCA post.
Simon called this limited reasoning power "bounded rationality": a rationality that results in a
seat-of-the-pants problem-solving approach that we all tend to adopt.
A current example of
seat-of-the-pants management is Ben & Jerry's, the Waterbury, VT-based ice-cream maker.
There is less
seat-of-the-pants decision-making; more analysis.
The characteristics of a good manager were energy, tenacity and
seat-of-the-pants wisdom.
As methodical analysis rapidly replaces
seat-of-the-pants guesswork, buyers, as a group, are forced to cope with mounting paperwork.
