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Streetlights and shadows : searching for the keys to adaptive decision making / Gary Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Gary A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decision making.
- Problem solving.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble-and why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.
- Contents:
- Ten surprises about the way we handle ambiguous situations
- A passion for procedures
- Seeing the invisible
- How biased is our thinking?
- Intuition versus analysis
- Blending intuition and analysis to make rapid decisions
- Experts and errors
- Automating decisions
- More is less
- When patience is a vice
- The limits of feedback
- Disconnecting the dots
- Do we think like computers?
- Moving targets
- The risks of risk management
- The cognitive wavelength
- Unlearning
- Reclaiming our minds
- Getting found.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-25834-X
- 1-282-69461-8
- 9786612694615
- 0-262-25901-X
- OCLC:
- 460090968
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