Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
How Customers Think
Gerald Zaltman · 2003
71/100
👍 Worth It
Zaltman's central argument — that 95 percent of consumer thinking is unconscious and traditional surveys miss most of what matters — is genuinely provocative and well-supported enough to shift how marketing teams approach research. The book is dense and the implementation guidance is thinner than practitioners will want, but as a framework-setter it remains one of the more original contributions to consumer insight literature.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness74
Craft & writing60
Originality80
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check68
Penny’s verdict71
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