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Summing Up: How Do We Know When and Whether to Blink? Most readers and non-readers of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, are willing to accept the premise that there is a time and place for "thin slicing" that leads to quick decision making based on sense borne of experience.   |
PHONE+
April 22, 2010
Matt Duray |
Book Review: Blink An important lesson from the book "Blink" is that people make rapid judgments based on every single part of the situation or interaction. Sales professionals need to be cognizant that anything could make or break a deal. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 14, 2005 |
Readers Respond: If You Blink, Will You Miss? While speed is desirable, instantaneous decisions can seem arbitrary to important stakeholders. A blink that alienates is a miss. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Diane Brady |
In a Flash You Just Know In his latest book, 'Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,' Malcolm Gladwell shows us that on-the-spot decision makers can be astonishingly insightful. The secret, he says, lies in "thin-slicing," or instantly homing in on a few salient details. |
Fast Company
January 2005
Danielle Sacks |
The Accidental Guru Malcolm Gladwell (author of 'The Tipping Point,' and 'Blink'), says one fan, is "just a thinker." But what a thinker. His provocative ideas are taking the business world by storm. So who is this guy, and what can he teach you about business? |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 4, 2010
Jim Heskett |
What's the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions? Michael Mauboussin, with his book Think Twice, suggests that businesses place too much emphasis on intuition and personal experience as opposed to the "wisdom of crowds," mathematical models, and systematically-collected data. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 2, 2010 |
Making Right Choices: Art or Science? Choice is especially difficult when it is between two roughly equally good or bad alternatives, which is often the case that managers confront. |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Rob Walker |
Going for the Gut Our heroes may crunch the numbers, but we like them to play their hunches. In the recent book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer makes the case for intuition. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 6, 2009
Jim Heskett |
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World? It is becoming clear that human behavior is much less rational than we assumed. What does this mean for conventional wisdom in areas such as management? |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
Thin Clients Fatten the Bottom Line I.T. budgets are being squeezed. As a result, companies are investing in "slimmed down" PCs or thin clients to lower costs and ease computing complexity... |
AskMen.com
November 14, 2014
Alex Manley |
Malcolm Gladwell Calls Football A Moral Abomination Football is America's favorite sport, but it might just be bestselling author and New Yorker essayist Malcolm Gladwell's least favorite |
