Ken Watanabe’s bestseller from 2009 Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People is just over 100 pages of how to make decisions. Applies to kids as well as adults. There are decision trees and cartoons overlaid with advice from a former McKinsey & company management consultant.

The other book is from Mr. Peabody’s way back time machine: The Mind Map Book by Tony and Barry Buzan. I like the 1993 full pictures full colors (free) version from the library. It was a great refresher as I was mind mapping several new projects and wanted a reference to see how other people have used this technique.

The combination of the two books should help get any project off to a good start.