When in doubt, sketch it out
Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People
By Ken Watanabe
Portfolio, 128 pages, $22.95
By Ken Watanabe
Portfolio, 128 pages, $22.95
Entrepreneurs should always be wary of smarmy little books with cute illustrations and homespun wisdom, but this one is something else: a smarmy little book with cute illustrations that, nonetheless, explains useful decision-making tools in plain English.
A logic tree, for example, is used to explore why you might have overslept. Drawing up a problem-solving plan before setting to work is urged as a way to avoid "drowning in a flood of information" that you will later realize is mostly useless. Problem Solving 101 is annoying in places (it was originally a kids' book in Japan), but it's a quick read with a potentially high payoff.
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