Sources of power : how people make decisions / Gary Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Gary A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

Twentieth Anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chronicling the strengths used in making difficult decisions

Learning from the firefighters

The recognition-primed decision model

The power of intuition

The power of mental simulation

The vincennes shootdown

Mental simulation and decision making

The power to spot leverage points

Nonlinear aspects of problem solving

The power to see the invisible

The power of stories

The power of metaphors and analogues

The power to read minds

The power of the team mind

The power of rational analysis and the problem of hyperrationality

Why good people make poor decisions

Conclusions

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Revised edition of the author's Sources of power, c1998.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262343244

0-262-34325-8

0-262-34324-X

OCLC:

1003641234