Streetlights and shadows : searching for the keys to adaptive decision making /
An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision making can get us into trouble-and why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2009
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Ten surprises about how we handle ambiguous situations
- A passion for procedures
- Seeing the invisible
- How biased is our thinking?
- Intuition versus analysis
- Blending intuition and analysis to make rapid decisions
- Experts and errors
- Automating decisions
- More is less
- When patience is a vice
- The limits of feedback
- Correcting the dots
- Do we think like computers?
- Moving targets
- The risks of risk management
- The cognitive wavelength
- Unlearning
- Reclaiming our minds
- Getting found.
