New Ideas

Edward de Bono’s Message

What is the value of a sign-post? What is the value of a door way? What is the value of a new idea? There is no value if you do not wish to follow the sign-post. Read more

Enhanced Teamwork and Collaboration

Using Six Thinking Hats™ at Boeing to put differences aside and focus on resolving the real issues.

Motivated by a strong desire to reach a positive outcome, a Boeing committee of union and management representatives recently turned to Six Thinking Hats™. Using the methodology, the committee was able to break down the traditional barriers that exist between management and unions to reach a win-win solution.
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Hats off to thinking!

Making the right decision quickly is a hugely valuable skill. Now Royal Mail managers can crack workplace problems in an
environment dedicated to Edward de Bono’s thinking techniques.

The Holst Group in partnership with Royal Mail’s Innovation Lab have sponsored the world’s first Six Thinking Hats® Room. Read how the Royal Mail are making ideas practical using Edward de Bono’s techniques.

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The Ultimate Creativity Killer

The guys at CopyBlogger have written another blog about creativity. Suprise suprise, the bigger killer of creativity seems to be people’s attitude to new ideas…

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Sound familiar?

Need to cope ‘outside of the box’?

The Innovator’s Toolkit from The Holst Group.

Good for Business, Bad for Schools?

I understand the Stephen Covey Organisation has put together a schools version of the 7 Habits. Amazingly this has been attacked by the education establishment as being wishy washy, mumbo jumbo, management speak and not appropriate for an academic environment.
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‘idea creativity’

Edward de Bono Message

I continue to be amazed that so many people do not understand the ‘logical’ basis of creativity. Essentially this is the behaviour of information in self-organising systems that inevitably form asymmetric patterns. Read more

Do Creative People need Six Hats?

Top Public Relations Consultancy, Countrywide Porter Novelli certainly thinks so. The Holst Group provided training in Edward de Bono’s thinking techniques that are now used throughout the business.

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New Words

Edward de Bono’s Message

There is a huge need for new words in a language. But new words are difficult to insert. New words do arise when there is an obvious need. But such needs are not the most important. There is a greater need for new words that will then allow us to see existing things in a new way or a new combination. Read more

Agility

Edward de Bono’s Message 

Here is a new use of a word. There is often a need to indicate that a new idea is ‘do-able’. That is a very clumsy expression. So we could use the word ‘agile’ which is derived from the Latin word ‘to do’ (same base as agenda). Read more