Edward de Bono è stato un medico e autore maltese, noto soprattutto per aver coniato il termine "pensiero laterale", un concetto che si riferisce alla creatività strutturata. È stato un sostenitore di spicco dell'insegnamento deliberato delle capacità di pensiero nelle scuole. Il suo lavoro si concentra sullo sviluppo di approcci creativi e innovativi alla risoluzione dei problemi. De Bono ha sottolineato l'importanza di coltivare intenzionalmente la capacità di pensare al di fuori degli schemi convenzionali.
First published in 1981, this was the first book ever to be written explicitly for the right side of the reader's brain. The right side works in images, whole patterns and undefined feelings - none of which can be verbalized.
In Practical Thinking de Bono's theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should. Based on the results of his famous Black Cylinder Experiment (a critical thinking task that asks participants why they think a black cylinder falls over), de Bono explores the four practical ways of being right.
Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.
In How to Have Creative Ideas Edward de Bono - the leading authority on creative thinking - outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking.
According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem. De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques, such as lateral thinking, combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think.
Think, don't fight.Conflicts argues that instead of our age old system of debate we should adopt what de Bono calls a `design idiom' and use lateral thinking to navigate a feud. De Bono explains how this concept of triangular thinking and map making is the way forward.
De Bono demonstrates that values come into all areas of thinking, behaviour and decision-making and outlines a framework to focus employees' attention on a variety of values including human values, organisational values, cultural values and perceptual values.
Attention is a key part of thinking clearly and productively, and yet we pay very little attention to attention itself. If you see someone lying injured in the middle of the road, for example, your attention would go to that person but, if a bright pink dog wandered past at the same time, your attention would automatically stray to the dog.
Whether this is offering other people something to laugh at or helping an elderly person cross the road, through these altruistic acts comes a sense of achievement, and from achievement comes self-esteem and a belief in oneself. 'H' stands for:- Happiness- Help- Hope- Health - and, most importantly, Humour.