false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg 65229 1 Gary Klein studies decision-making in the field, tagging along with firefighters, standing by in intensive-care units, and watching chess masters play lightning-fast "blitz" games to learn how people make choices with time constraints, limited information, and changing goals. From this research, he and his associates have developed a theory of "naturalistic decision-making."<p> <I>Sources of Power</I> essentially lends the validity of scientific research to techniques that many of us use every day. There's intuition, which is based not on instantaneous insight but on the rapid (perhaps even subconscious) interpretation of perceptual cues. There's mental simulation, a finely honed method of visualization. There's storytelling and metaphor, which enable decision-makers to devise meaningful frameworks and compare their present situations to previous events. Nobody is born with an inherent <I>mastery</I> of these and other techniques, Klein tells us, but we are all born with the <I>capability</I> to develop, through experience, the skill sets experts call upon to make good decisions. 63279 26 2 1999 Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions total:54|5:15|4:16|3:16|2:7|1:0| 54 201 150 13 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 3 0 true Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 16:31:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 17:04:13 -0700 2009
I liked the idea of how experience increases your level of abstraction and thereby lets you build better mental models.

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He talks about how the meticulous analytical decision-making process, where you line up all the options and compare them so you can choose the best one, is not really what peo...more...]]> 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 26 08:35:06 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 22:34:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 4 0 false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 12:07:34 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 16:18:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 3 0 false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 08:31:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 08:32:29 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 3 0 false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 20 17:52:55 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 03 01:49:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 2 0 false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 16:37:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 23 18:24:24 -0700 2008 I guess it's good knowledge to have and it is pretty cool to see it explained. But the book was a bit dry and I struggled to get to the end of it....more...]]> 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 2 0 false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 20 13:48:20 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 19 07:46:05 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Tue Jan 08 07:16:21 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 09:59:54 -0800 2008 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Sun Aug 10 18:53:36 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 18:55:20 -0700 2008 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Thu Dec 03 23:11:05 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 23:32:19 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 04:55:21 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 11:42:57 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 2 0 false Mon Nov 30 22:04:24 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 22:04:24 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 15:13:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 15:14:04 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Tue Nov 24 04:44:10 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 04:44:15 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Sun Nov 22 19:27:39 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:27:47 -0800 2009 65229 0262611465 9780262611466 54 13 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170631496m/65229.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65229.Sources_of_Power_How_People_Make_Decisions 0 0 false Sat Nov 21 04:51:35 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 04:51:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=65229