Credit Crunch

Edward de Bono’s Message

You may trust a person’s honesty – but can you trust that person’s intelligence? This may have some relevance to the current credit crunch or banking crisis. We can pick out at least five factors contributing to the problem and reflecting habits of thinking. Read more

Using “Six Hats” to Prepare and Present

Using Six Thinking Hats® will ensure you have really thought through the presentation much more objectively and comprehensively. It also enables you to demonstrate this to your audience – for example if you are pitching an idea to include your own Black Hat (cautions, negatives) demonstrates:

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European Year of Creativity & Innovation 2009

Edward de Bono’s Message

There are thousands of people writing software for computers. Yet we have done nothing at all about software for the human mind, for ordinary thinking. We have been content to use the software developed 2,400 years ago by the GG3 (Greek Gang of 3: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle). When this thinking came to Europe at the time of the Renaissance, schools, universities and thinking were all in the hands of the Church. The Church did not need creative thinking. The Church did not need perceptual thinking. What the Church needed was analysis, logic and argument with which to defend the faith and to prove heretics wrong. So this thinking became the core of Western education and remains so to this day. Read more

Updating The Six Thinking Hats®

Training has moved very much from “training by the manual” to “learning by doing”.  This is illustrated by The Innovator’s Toolkit which uses the de Bono tools to work an issue or opportunity right through from definition of the focus to getting an idea ready for implementation. 

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Critical or exploratory thinking?

Facts and information are clearly not enough to get you through life.  Critical thinking gets mentioned a lot as an alternative but this has an extremely negative, and narrow, connotation.  What is really needed is the opportunity for people, whether in work or in education, to be able to explore a subject comprehensively and think creatively around it where necessary.

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Six Frames for looking at Information

Edward de Bono’s Message

My most recent book is “Six Frames for looking at information” (Ebury Press, part of Random House). We are surrounded by ever more information. How do we look at information? Read more

How to Increase Creativity across a Traditional Thinking Organisation

Often organisations don’t understand what innovation is.  Things like process improvements, cost cutting and change management do not seem very ‘innovative’ but actually are the changes that lead to innovation.

Simplifying a process can be as innovative as creating a whole new one so moving a traditional thinking organisation to an innovative thinking organisation is not as hard as it seems.

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