The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables

I prefer a book that goes straight to the point. Actually I gave up reading the book fairly in the beginning of the book.Personally I think there are too many unnecessary sentences/paragraphs which should be unnecessary to make the points.Perhaps 80% of the contents of the book could be removed to still make the book have a sense.

Great book at great price

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A good balance of short, easily-digested messages and more in-depth studies that require careful attention.The many short fables are described (on page 120) as making "the creative part of problem solving look either too easy or too mysterious. Creativity is not just a flashing insight. Such insights are nurtured in soil prepared by hard and time-consuming work". This is a lead-in to the remaining 80-odd pages of more-realistic detailed examples.I bought this book while doing the hard work of successfully solving engineering problems at a major corporation. The book helped me to broaden my outlook. I weeded my problem-solving library when I left engineering. This was one of two such books I kept -- the other was Are Your Lights On? by Gause and Weinberg, ISBN: 0932633161. I wrote this review because I wanted people to know that I found Ackoff's book as useful as Are Your Lights On?

A classic work about the 'creative' approach to problem solving - re-framing problems or questioning the basic assumptions that create the 'problem' in the first place. Slightly dated, though the nostalgic burst of baby-boomer optimism about our ability to fix the world's problems by the application of fresh thinking is refreshing.

Este libro es como un manual de sobrevivencia en la jungla de la resolucion de problemas. Estava en mi lista "para ler" y superou mis expectativas. Las fablas son deliciosas. Altamente recomendado.

This book is a classic. The quality of the copy I received matched the advertised state.

Minor detail: the edition was not the same as in the item photo.

L'édition ne correspond pas. Il s'agit de The Art of Problem Solving mais il manque The Ackoff's Fables. Des ceiption non conforme.