Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono has written 67 books with translations into 38 languages
and has been invited to lecture in 57 countries.A partial listing of his 67 books include; New Think, Mechanism of Mind, Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, Serious Creativity, I Am Right-You Are Wrong, Parallel Thinking, Conflicts-A Better Way to Resolve Them, Water Logic, Simplicity, Teaching Thinking, New Thinking for the New Millennium, PO: A Device for Successful Thinking, and Future Positive.
Articles by this Author
THE TEACHING OF CREATIVE THINKING
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/25/2008
- Motivation
- Unrated
"RELEASE " IS NOT ENOUGH
CREATIVITY AND QUALITY
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/25/2008
- Motivation
- Unrated
Conformists are good at playing the game. At school they quickly learn how to pass tests, how to please the teacher, and how to copy when necessary. Later in life they are also good at assessing the game that is in play and then good at playing that game.
Why Do Quality Efforts Lose Their Fizz?Quality is No Longer Enough
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/25/2008
- Motivation
- Unrated
When quality programs have been running for some time the fizz goes out of them and they can become boring. But that is only a minor problem compared to the more fundamental issues that I intend to cover here.
Time For Thinking
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/25/2008
- Motivation , Personal Success
- Unrated
How much of your time do you spend thinking?
By ‘thinking’ I mean mental activity that results in action, or analysis of a subject, insight or new idea
Creative Problem-solving: An exercise in creative problem-solving using the example of traffic congestion
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/1/2008
- Customer Service
- Unrated
Traffic congestion in cities is an excellent problem
for creative effort. Solutions are likely to be as expensive and impractical as
underground railway systems.
Creative People: Are we as creative as we'd like to think we are?
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/1/2008
- Goal Setting
- Unrated
What about those people who think that they are
creative? Are they as creative as they believe themselves to be
Management teams - value, idea, implementation, assessment
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/1/2008
- Customer Service
- Unrated
Team one is the values team. The
role of this team is to find and figure out values that matter.
Thinking techniques - when to stop thinking?
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/1/2008
- Personal Success
- Unrated
There
are situations with definite answers.
Six Thinking Hats
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 09/1/2008
- Public Speaking
- Unrated
Everyone knows what a bottleneck is. A bottleneck is a
constriction or restriction on flow.
Six Thinking Hats
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 08/19/2008
- Accelerate Your Effectiveness
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You and your team members can learn how to separate thinking into six valuable functions and roles. Each thinking role is identified with a colored symbolic "thinking hat." By mentally wearing and switching "hats," you can easily focus or redirect thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting.
SERIOUS CREATIVITY
- By Edward de Bono
- Published 08/19/2008
- Accelerate Your Effectiveness
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Serious Creativity will seem a contradiction in terms for many people. Everyone knows that creativity has to be fun, lively, and crazy - so how can we have serious creativity?
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