I can't recommend Gary Klein's Sources of Power enough, it is stuffed with awesome mental models, real life parables, research findings, and one quotable passag

I can't recommend Gary Klein's Sources of Power enough, it is stuffed with awesome mental models, real life parables, research findings, and one quotable passage after another on expert decisionmaking. From the book, things experts do more/better/faster/etc than novices. * Identify patterns faster and successfully predict future events more often. * Recognize anomalies - especially negative anomalies i.e. something didn't happen that should - quickly and take appropriate actions. * Identify leverage points within their architecture to solve new problems and deliver new features faster and with less effort. * Make finer discriminations of events and data, at a level of detail novices don't consider. * Understand the tradeoffs and consequences of an option. * (I like this one) Recognize expertise in others and defer as many decisions as possible to that expertise. * Their ability to "context switch" when describing a situation to other experts vs novices vs non-particpants. And one that's not explicitly from the book but is contained in its wisdom: * Skate where the puck is going, not where it is.