Problem Solving 101

A simple book for smart people

Ken Watanabe

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English

Vermilion
01 May 2009

Management decision making; Popular psychology; Memory improvement & thinking techniques

Take control of your thinking with this fun and simple problem-solving guide that has taken Japan by storm

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly became an international bestseller for readers of all ages, thanks to the powerful effectiveness of Ken Watanabe's unique methods.

Full of useful diagrams and quirky drawings, Problem Solving 101 is packed with practical tools and brain training techniques that will improve your problem-solving and decision-making ability, and enable you to find better solutions faster.

Simple enough for a high school student to understand but sophisticated enough for CEOs to apply to their most challenging problems, Problem Solving 101 has helped millions of people around the world to find successful solutions to even the toughest of problems.

Once you've mastered the problem-solving skills in this book, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them.

By: Ken Watanabe
Imprint: Vermilion
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9780091929664
ISBN 10: 0091929660
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 May 2009
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ken Watanabe grew up bilingual in Japan and studied in the United States at Yale and Harvard Business School. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company for six years. He is now the founder and CEO of his own education, entertainment and media company, Delta Studio.

Reviews for Problem Solving 101: A simple book for smart people

If everyone made decisions like Ken Watanabe, the world would be a better place * Seth Godin, author of Tribes * Problem Solving 101 teaches us to recognize the common elements in the decisions we face every day, and how to think carefully about them. It offers tricks and tips for every age * Dan Ariely, author of the New York Time bestseller Predictably Irrational * a business best seller * Business Week * This is an excellent primer on problem solving * Lowell Bryan, author of Mobilizing Minds *