Works
- Breakthrough Thinking: Why We Must Change the Way We Solve Problems, and the Seven Principles to Achieve This, Prima, with Gerald Nadler, 1990
- Creative Solution Finding, Prima, with Gerald Nadler, 1994
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Japanese scholar who, with the industrial engineer Gerald Nadler, set out Breakthrough Thinking, seven principles for solving problems. The best known is the purposes principle: before seeking solutions, expand the purpose of the task into a hierarchy of ever larger purposes and choose the level at which to work.