Sources of Power

Sources of Power

by Gary Klein

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Klein studies how experts, firefighters, nurses, commanders, make fast decisions under pressure without formal analysis. Expert intuition works through pattern recognition and mental simulation.

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In this collection, Sources of Power references 1 other book and is cited by 4 other books.

It draws on Flow.

It’s picked up by The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious and Thinking, Fast and Slow and 1 others.

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What Sources of Power Draws On

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References Csikszentmihalyi's flow states when describing how experienced professionals enter intuitive decision modes under pressure

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Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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What Other Authors Say About It

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Kahneman engages extensively with Gary Klein's Sources of Power on intuitive expertise. The two famously co-authored "Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree" — Kahneman's view of when expert intuition can be trusted is shaped by years of debate with Klein.

Part 3 (Expert Intuition)

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Greene lists Gary Klein's Sources of Power as a foundational source for his arguments about masterly intuition. Klein's research on expert firefighters and their rapid pattern-recognition is central to Greene's discussion of how masters develop high-level intuition over years of practice.

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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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