• The nature of intellectual styles 

  Zhang, L; Sternberg, R J (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2006)
• On the Relative Independence of Thinking Biases and Cognitive Ability 

  Stanovich, K E; West, R F (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2008)

  In 7 different studies, the authors observed that a large number of thinking biases are uncorrelated with cognitive ability. These thinking biases include some of the most classic and well-studied biases in the heuristics ...
• Meditation acutely improves psychomotor vigilance, and may decrease sleep need 

  Kaul, P (Behavioural and Brain functions, 2010)

  Background A number of benefits from meditation have been claimed by those who practice various traditions, but few have been well tested in scientifically controlled studies. Among these claims are improved performance ...
• Victims of Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes 

  Janis, I (Houghton Miflin Company, 1972)

  Defines "groupthink" as a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups. A group dynamics approach to explain aspects of American ...
• Cognition in the Wild 

  Hutchins, E (MIT Press, 1996)
• Contrary Imaginations 

  Hudson, L (Penguin, 1966)

  Delineates 2 kinds of clever students: the “converger”, who excels in objective tests, and the “diverger”, who excels in essay tests. A description of the intellectual abilities, attitudes, and personalities of a sample ...
• Winning in a complex world starts with thinking 

  Crosby, C; Marston, A (Small Wars Journal, 2015)
• Creativity under the gun 

  Amabile, TM; Hadley, CM; Kramer, SJ (Harvard Business Review, 2002)

  If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of ...
• Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge 

  Argyris, C (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
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  smith, a (pirates, 1999)
• Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy 

  Gavetti, Giovanni; Levinthal, Daniel; Rivkin, Jan W (2005)

  We examine how firms discover effective competitive positions in worlds that are both novel and complex. In such settings, neither rational deduction nor local search is likely to lead a firm to a successful array of ...
• Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century 

  Gardner, Howard (Wiley, 1999)

  Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and ...
• Personality, learning style and work performance 

  Furnham, Adrian; Jackson, Chris J; Miller, Tony (Personality and Individual Differences, 1999)

  Just over two hundred telephone sales staff completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Extraversion was highly correlated both positively and negatively ...
• Expertise and intelligent thinking: When is it worse to know better 

  Frensch, Peter A; Sternberg, Robert J (Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence, 1989)

  It has often been said . . . that expertise in a given domain actually hinders people's success in that domain / the goal of this chapter is to specify some of the conditions under which and reasons why experts are sometimes ...
• Shared cognition in top management teams: implications for new venture performance 

  Ensley, Michael D; Pearce, Craig L (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2001)

  This paper presents a study of two samples of new venture top management teams from the inc. 500. The research poses that shared strategic cognition is the outcome of group processes that occur during the development of ...
• The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments 

  Emery, F. E; Trist, E. L (1965)
• A Theory of Unconscious Thought. 

  Dijksterhuis, Ap; Nordgren, Loran (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2007)

  We present a theory about human thought named the unconscious-thought theory (UTT). The theory is applicable to decision making, impression formation, attitude formation and change, problem solving, and creativity. It ...
• Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas 

  De Bono, Edward (1992)

  Creativity is becoming increasingly important for all businesses as competition intensifies because to act creatively is the best and cheapest way to get added value out of existing resources and assets. In this book, the ...
• Systems Thinking, Systems Practice 

  Checkland, P (Wiley, 1999)

  Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology ...
• Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment 

  Cattell, Raymond (Journal of Educational Psychology, 1963)

  The theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence propounded 20 years ago by the author has since accumulated support. However, the crucial issue of whether 1 or 2 general factors subtend intellectual performances has ...

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