USA Today columnist Del Jones interviews Ken Watanabe:
Should Problem Solving 101 sell well in the USA, author Ken Watanabe will pull off a rare recent instance of transferring business advice from the world's second-largest economy to the largest. That was fairly common two decades ago until the Japanese economy faltered and U.S. executives soured on many things Japanese.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/2009-02-24-japanese-book-english_N.htm
The Boston Globe reviews Problem Solving 101:
Ken Watanabe, formerly a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., wrote "Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People" to teach decision-making skills to Japanese schoolchildren.
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/03/01/abcs_for_ceos_and_everyone_else/
Gaebler.com recommends the book for entrepreneurs:
Staff writer Anna Gaebler reviews Ken Watanabe's book, Problem Solving 101. Written in simple terms for children, it is a must-read for any child or adult who finds that they are not achieving their goals. This is a great gift for young people in your life whom you wish to put on the path to success and sensible thinking.
http://www.gaebler.com/Book-Review-Problem-Solving-101-Ken-Watanabe.htm
The Dallas Morning News reviews Problem Solving 101:
Solving any problem involves four steps:
BusinessWeek comments on the phenomenal succes of the original Japanese edition (2007)
What do you get when you combine a guitar-playing eggplant with McKinsey-style reasoning? In Japan, a best-selling business book. Titled The World's Easiest Problem-Solving Class, it aims to teach consultant-style analysis to middle and high schoolers in a country where test-taking and rote memorization are second nature to kids at an early age. But since its June release the book has been snapped up by adults, rising as high as No. 2 on Amazon (AMZN) Japan, where it currently ranks No. 26 with 250,000 copies in print.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2007/gb20071025_322804.htm
