Book description
Problems block and slow down your progress; here’s how to overcome them–simply, efficiently and effectively.
This book offers straightforward, empowering science-based solutions to problems, big and small, at work or in life. It takes a never before seen approach to problem solving, powerfully combining lessons from cognitive science, established problem-solving theory and vast practical experience. It includes a radical new approach to analysing problems: The Problem Matrix. This will transform your approach to problems, challenge your thinking and help you develop new, positive, solution-focussed mindsets for the long-term.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- About the author
- Publisher’s acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Being stuck: what it means to have a problem
- 2 Welcome to your brain: nature’s problem-solver and how it works (sort of)
- 3 What’s your style?: your problem-solving profile and what it means
- 4 Am I bothered?: blame, resistance and the call to ownership
- 5 Puzzle, headache, plan, dream: four types of problem
- 6 Closing the gap: solving puzzles
- 7 Treating headaches: what to do when problems become wicked
- 8 Design thinking: planning the way forward
- 9 Dreaming the future: creative problem-solving
- 10 Making it happen: deciding wisely
- 11 Towards collaboration: solving problems with other people
- Afterword
- Index
- Imprint
Product information
- Title: How to Solve Almost Any Problem
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): Pearson International
- ISBN: 9780273770893
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