Creative Problem Solving

Creative Problem Solving, by Donald J. Noone, Ph.D., is really more than a book that provides you with the skills you'll need in the business world. I think this short read (only 115 pages) is an excellent resource that allows you to tap into some additional ways to consider looking at a solution from a problem solving perspective. Dr. Noone provides you with ways to free yourself up by thinking liberating thoughts, how to consider using creative ways to finding solutions to your problems by asking many questions and on top of that how to use paradoxical thinking to create alternative breakthroughs. I felt this is an excellent book to recommend to my business partners at Nightingale Conant Corporation, MarketingProfs colleagues, seminar participants and my students at Glenwood who are looking for creative ways to "Think outside of the dodecahedron".

Since I finished reading this I keep it in the back of my pocket. I refer to this book when I want to get my team or my clients motivated in brainstorming sessions. Dr. Noone had a very clear and humirist fashion of explaining his basic guidelines of "Problem Solving": 1. Mind Maps 2. Option generation 3. Fishhooking and 4. Analogies to bring out creativity. From your creative thoughts Dr. Noone would explain how to be able to utilize those thoughts with various methods as well how to be able to take action on the solutions. I recommend this book for a quick and easy read to be prepared for brainstorming sessions as an individual or as a team.