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Gary Klein

Daniel Kahneman’s Favorite Approach For Making Better Decisions

Bob Sutton’s book, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, contains an interesting section towards the end on looking back from the future, which talks about “a …

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Improving Performance

Via Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (Kindle) To improve performance, we need to do two things. The down arrow is what we have to reduce, errors. The up arrow is …

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The Remarkable Way We Gain Insights

In 1936 Graham Wallas, co-founder of the London School of Economics, published The Art of Thought, outlining the four stages of the creative process. This pre-dates, by at least a decade, James …

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Gary Klein: Streetlights and Shadows

Gary Klein‘s book Streetlights and Shadows looks at commonly held maxims for decision-making and overturns them, revealing cases where these practices break down. The book is an impressive look …

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