Problem Solving 101: A simple book for smart people

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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.

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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 *

Author Bio

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.