Priced at Rs 99, the book, which has recently been published, describes puzzles that are commonly asked in final interviews to test candidates’ logical and creative thinking ability. The book has strong potential to develop the thinking ability in young students as well as quality entertainment for elderly people.
Elaborating on the rationale behind writing the book, Mr Apte said, “We train students for aptitude test, group discussion, personal interviews and work on personality development programs besides core subject knowledge.
However, there is hardly any training to develop logical thinking. This need is particularly felt among students of engineering, IT, management, etc. I learnt from an engineer working in Microsoft that it is very common to ask a few logical puzzles in an interview. The way candidates solve it plays an important role in the selection. So, I felt the need for developing these skills among students.”
According to the author, preparation for developing logical and analytical skills must start from childhood and continue throughout the life. Logic is a basis of effective communication and decision making. The book gives three levels for puzzles. Level 1 is for secondary school children, level 2 is for college students and for those preparing for job interviews and level 3 is to sharpen logical skills for computer programmers, lawyers, negotiators, strategic thinkers, etc.
Mr Apte said improving logical and analytical skills is important for MBA students. To support his point, Mr Apte mentioned a recently-published book, ‘Rethinking the MBA, Business education at a crossroad’, written by Dr Srikant Datar, dean of HBS, and others. This book has identified eight un-met needs of MBA programs with critical & analytical thinking being one of them.
Mr Apte is working on his next book on Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), which deals with programming the subconscious mind.
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