The author is a research psychologist who developed the understanding of recognition primed decision making. He was instrumental in helping the USMC understand how experts understood a problem and formed an opinion based not only upon what was unfolding but their own personal understanding. This book is his first of several and describes how people make decisions in all kinds of situations. It includes numerous examples and anecdotes to show how people make decisions in everyday examples ranging from nurses and doctors with patients to firefighters in fires or chess masters in “blitz” chess games. The descriptions of the role and value of personal intuition are especially useful, particularly in how intuition is developed and honed. The book remains one of the best and most simple to understand in explaining the basics of human decision making. (See also Streetlights and Shadows)
Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 (293 pages)
Recommended by Sid Heal in Episodes 1 & 2
