Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do - Hardcover

Klein, Gary A.

 
9780385502887: Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385502885 ISBN 13: 9780385502887
Publisher: Doubleday, 2002

Synopsis

A leading intuition researcher explores the key role of intuition in how we do our job and demonstrates that intuition is a learnable and essential skill, explaining the ability to recognize patterns and other cues can help us make the right decisions in crucial situations.

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About the Author

GARY KLEIN, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Scientist of Klein Associates, is the author of Sources of Power, named by Business & Strategy as one of the best books of the new millenium. He is renowned for his pioneering work with the U.S. Marines, firefighters, and business organizations in determining the role intuition plays in individual performance. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

From the Inside Flap

At times in our careers, we've all been aware of a "gut feeling" guiding our decisions. Too often, we dismiss these feelings as "hunches" and therefore untrustworthy. But renowned researcher Gary Klein reveals that, in fact, 90 percent of the critical decisions we make is based on our intuition. In his new book, INTUITION AT WORK, Klein shows that intuition, far from being an innate "sixth sense," is a learnable--and essential--skill.

Based on interviews with senior executives who make important judgments swiftly, as well as firefighters, emergency medical staff, soldiers, and others who often face decisions with immediate life-and-death implications, Klein demonstrates that the expertise to recognize patterns and other cues that enable us--intuitively--to make the right decisions--is a natural extension of experience.

Through a three-tiered process called the "Exceleration Program," Klein provides readers with the tools they need to build the intuitive skills that will help them make tough choices, spot potential problems, manage uncertainty, and size up situations quickly. Klein also shows how to communicate such decisions more effectively, coach others in the art of intuition, and recognize and defend against an overdependence on information technology.

The first book to demystify the role of intuition in decision making, INTUITION AT WORK is essential reading for those who wish to develop their intuition skills, wherever they are in the organizational hierarchy.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0385502885
ISBN 13 
9780385502887
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
311