Credibility Quote by Gary A. Klein

“Society's epitome of credibility is John Wayne, who sizes up a situation and says, "Here's what I'm going to do" - and you follow him.”

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There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They…

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People who design decision aids and information technologies usually try to help people perform their jobs better. But insights can show us how to…

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Intuition is when we use our experience, and the patterns we have learned, to rapidly size up situations and know how to respond without…

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If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

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