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Previously published by the Institute of Personnel and Development as Decision Making and Problem Solving 1997 and 1999
First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2007 by Kogan Page Limited as Decision Making and Problem Solving Strategies
Reissued 2010
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E-ISBN 978 0 7494 5890 4
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adair, John.
Decision making and problem solving strategies / John Adair. -- 2nd. ed.
p. cm.
Originally published in 2007.
Includes index
ISBN 978-0-7494-5551-4 -- ISBN 978-0-7494-5890-4
(ebook) 1. Decision making. 2. Problem solving. 3. Thought and thinking. I. Title. II. Title: Decision making and problem solving strategies.
HD30.23.A3 2010
658.4’03--dc22
2009031517
Typeset by Jean Cussons Typesetting, Diss, Norfolk
Printed and bound in India by Replika Press Pvt Ltd
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