Power Of Intuition Book Report

The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein teaches the reader about what your intuition is and the possibilities of its full potential. The author, Gary Klein, created his own research and design company that has paved a way in the study of Naturalistic Decision Making for business professionals. While Gary was creating his company he also worked on a formula called the RPD or Recognition-Primed Decision models in 1985. The RPD is a model that showcases how people make quick and effective decisions when faced with complex problems. The formula has been used throughout the scientific community and has been regarded as one of the most interesting and accurate formula of its kind. Gary has also developed many other types of formulas and theories in

In this book Gary reveals that 90 percent of the important decisions that we make throughout our lives is based on intuition. Klein came to the theory by studying those who are under extreme stress that are forced to make critical decisions every day such as CEOs and Firefighters. He also states that the we have the ability to harness our intuition and to train it to make us better decision makers overall. In this book Klein teaches readers about his three-tiered process called the “Exceleration Program.” The program has been claimed to help train individuals on the tools they need to build upon their own intuition skills and to help them make better critical decisions

Since everyone decision making process is different this program must be adapted and applied to many different situations. The process includes prompting decisions on people that experience all different kinds of decision making stress. They concluded that most of the time when you make a decision you are creating an internal mental simulation. The mental simulation is a play by play of what happens if you chose that decision. Over time, important decision makers such as executives have created many mental simulations that are formed from experiences. Therefore, our intuition is made up of a quick response to a mental simulation that is formed from past experiences making our intuition more accurate than one would