Comments on: Sources of Power, by Gary Klein

By: Thinkologist: The Dudley Lynch Blog on Brain Change » Blog Archive » MORE AND MORE ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TO THE BRAIN’S POWERS OF THIN SLICING

Thu, 19 May 2011 22:47:51 +0000

[...] thin ice, it’s good to do thin slicing This was the beginning of Klein’s years-long inquiry into what he ended up calling “Recognition-Primed Decision-Making.” It’s not a cut-and-dried [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer || April || 2010

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:19:04 +0000

[...] model is that of the unconscious mind, as popularized in recent books like Sources of Power and Blink. The theory here is that our brains have evolved over millenia to have an enormous amount [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Planning for surprise || October || 2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:01:35 +0000

[...] or using that knowledge. Training people to notice when things don’t fit with tools like recognition-primed decision making may be more valuable than training them in a process which may become outdated within [...]

By: Library clips :: Birthing and midwives : stories, facilitation and decision-making :: May :: 2009

Tue, 05 May 2009 08:14:35 +0000

[...] This applies to Gary Klein’s work on decision-making via Erich Nehrlich: [...]

By: When Experience Won’t Hack It | Requisite Writing

When Experience Won’t Hack It | Requisite Writing — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:54:58 +0000

[...] Nehrlich, “Review of Klein’s Sources of Power“. Nehrlich is interesting in a lot of ways, and I’ve somehow lost him. Getting him back [...]

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:29:39 +0000

Really interesting. It reminds me of something we learned in a “self-defense for women” class: that people (and especially women) under violent criminal attack are often sabotaged by the fictional stories they’ve absorbed over the years, stories of helpless victimhood, which prime them to make bad decisions or to freeze up. One of the most important lessons in the class was reprogramming your unthinking instincts, throwing out the bad, disabling stories, practicing effective defenses that would – in a sense – overwrite those with useful stories of effective resistance. I’d never thought of it in terms of RPD theory but it sure fits.

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Convergence08 || November || 2008

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:33:29 +0000

[...] with stories makes clear. This was a session where people discussed the idea of sense making (Gary Klein’s work with firefighters was a big influence), how it could be embedded into technology and possible business ideas built on [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Strategic Intuition and Expertise || June || 2008

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000

[...] Expert intuition is built up by practice and familiarity with situations, of the sort described by Gary Klein in Sources of Power or Malcolm Gladwell in Blink. Expert intuition is using one’s built-up experience to [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Mastery || May || 2007

Thu, 24 May 2007 11:07:28 +0000

[...] idea of mastery is also covered by Gary Klein’s Sources of Power, where he describes how firefighters make rapid and correct decisions in the field. They have been [...]

By: Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Cognitive subroutines || February || 2005

Wed, 23 May 2007 12:22:38 +0000

[...] is going to be a relatively long post, mostly inspired by reading Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, and Sources of Power, by Gary Klein, both books that explain how and why our unconscious decision-making capabilities [...]