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Streetlights and Shadows
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Streetlights and Shadows

Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

MIT Press, 2009 Mehr


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

In 1998, Gary Klein gave readers Sources of Power, a thoughtful, innovative consideration of how to make decisions in complex situations. Here, he returns to the same subject in even greater depth. Klein has spent decades studying and interviewing people, such as firefighters, soldiers and pilots, who make decisions in complicated, shifting, high-stakes circumstances. He discusses what most people believe about making decisions, and shows how they err...some of the time. In ambiguous, unknown settings or under complex conditions, people tend to simplify until their beliefs become dangerous. This entertaining book grapples with many of life’s more challenging situations. As a result, getAbstract recommends Klein’s insights to leaders, trainers and anyone who must make more effective decisions in crises.

Take-Aways

  • Most common beliefs about decision making are wrong or incomplete.
  • Decision making functions differently in complex, chaotic circumstances than in clearly defined, well-known situations.
  • Formal guidelines can get in the way of good decisions and learning.

About the Author

Research psychologist Gary Klein, author of Sources of Power, is a senior scientist at Applied Research Associates.


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    A. S. 3 years ago
    Great book, must read
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    C. M. 1 decade ago
    This is really impressive and an exact requirement for me

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