Question

Sal has been in the landscaping business for over 40 years. when jaime, his business partner, suggested adding snow removal as an extra service, sal responded with "my gut feeling is to say yes because of my experience in the past and what i have seen other companies do over the years, both successfully and not." sal is acting on _____ in his response to jaime.

Answer 1

The fact that Sal listens his "gut feeling" and wants to say yes adding snow removal as an extra service because of his experience in the past and what he has seen other companies do over the years, both successfully and not, means that Sal is acting on intuition in his response to Jaime. There is no analytic reasoning, proof and evidence in intuition, only a feeling 

Answer 2

Intuition is the answer.

Because Sal is in the landscaping industry for more than 40 years, he has enough of the experience to have an intuition about the decision in his business. There is no need to think hard for the decision, if you have a gut feeling about the things that need a decision.

So on the basis of his experience in this business, Sal has a gut feeling of going with the suggestion of his partner to add the snow removal activity in their business. As he is relying on his intuition, so there is no need to think over and over again about it. Just go with the inner feeling.