Creative Problem-Solving: The Door to Progress and Change

For too many people, problems, roadblocks, or failure to find the right path stand in the way of success. In Creative Problem-Solving, Thomas W. Dombroski shows us how to remove the roadblocks by attacking problems creatively and clearing away outmoded strictures that straitjacket our thinking process and inhibit new approaches.After stressing the importance of attitude in approaching problems, Dombroski breaks down the problem-solving process into five phases and illustrates each phase with puzzles, examples, diagrams, and other techniques of reinforcement.Creative Problem-Solving effectively blends psychology with hard-nosed business practice.

Thomas W. Dombroski, the president of D & L Consultants Enterprises, Inc., a management consulting firm, was graduated from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and did graduate work at Wilkes College, also in Wilkes-Barre. For ten years he was a senior process engineer with General Telephone and Electronic, Sylvania Electric Division in Towanda, Pennsylvania. In 1965, he formed his management consulting firm. Mr. Dombroski has taught a course in problem solving at various public agencies to businessmen, social workers, and community development personnel. He also has taught his course over radio station WRKC-FM, Willkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In addition, he has a wide background of experience in management-consulting services, particularly for small businesses in the commercial-industrial fields.