Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace

Preface

Caution! Genius at Work

The courtroom was hushed as the defense attorney rose to make his closing statement. Although the case presented some tough challenges for the prosecution—after all, the police had never actually found a body—the evidence did seem to point convincingly to the absolute fact that the defendant did indeed kill his wife. Not only was there no reasonable doubt, there seemed to be no doubt.

But the folks in the courtroom had perhaps underestimated the skills of Basil Simmons, the Harvard–educated New York lawyer who then rose to speak. Simmons looked at the jury and announced, “I agree with the prosecutor that the evidence looks rather convincing. If I were in your shoes, I’d be pretty impressed with some of the facts ...