Observations of humans acting under real-life constraints as time pressures, high stakes, personal responsiblity and shifting conditions, providing information that can be used by professionals in management, psychology, engineering and other fields, and presents an overview of the research approach of naturalistic decision making and expands our knowledge of the strengths people bring to different tasks. -- from publisher.

1.Chronicling the Strengths Used in Making Difficult Decisions -- 2. Learning from the Firefighters -- 3. The Recognition-Primed Decision Model -- 4. The Power of Intuition -- 5. The Power of Mental Simulation -- 6. The Vincennes Shootdown -- 7. Mental Simulation and Decision Making -- 8. The Power to Spot Leverage Points -- 9. Nonlinear Aspects of Problem Solving -- 10. The Power to See the Invisible -- 11. The Power of Stories -- 12. The Power of Metaphors and Analogues -- 13. The Power to Read Minds -- 14. The Power of the Team Mind -- 15. The Power of Rational Analysis and the Problem of Hyperrationality -- 16. Why Good People Make Poor Decisions -- 17. Conclusions.