Streetlights and Shadows Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

Name: Streetlights and Shadows Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making
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ISBN: 9780262516723

ISBN-10: 0262516721

ISBN-13: 9780262516723

Edition: 2009

Authors: Gary Klein

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In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines--gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in practice we make some of our best decisions by adapting to circumstances rather than blindly following procedures. In Streetlights and Shadows, Gary Klein debunks the conventional wisdom about how to make decisions. He takes ten commonly accepted claims about decision making and shows that they are better…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/23/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990

Eli Berman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and Research Director of International Security Studies at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.Gary Klein is chairman and chief scientist of Klein Associates. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.