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Author Klein, Gary.

Title Seeing what others don't : The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights.

Publication Info. 2013.

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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York : PublicAffairs, 2013. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1395 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1333 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB).
Summary Insights—like Darwin’s understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick’s breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA—can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed—or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don’t, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels the mystery.Klein is a keen observer of people in their natural settings—scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, police officers, soldiers, family members, friends, himself—and uses a marvelous variety of stories to illuminate his research into what insights are and how they happen. What, for example, enabled Harry Markopolos to put the finger on Bernie Madoff? How did Dr. Michael Gottlieb make the connections between different patients that...
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Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Nonfiction.
Business.
Psychology.
Other Form: Original 9781610392518
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