No natural limit
November 26, 2009 by admin
Edward de Bono’s Message
There is no natural limit to traffic – which is increasing everywhere. There is no natural limit to communication which is also increasing rapidly.
The excellence of the communications channels does not ensure that what goes through the channels is of high value. Perhaps we need some simple code for communication. This might distinguish five areas: reply; vital; important; useful; fun.
The codes seems a good idea.
My concern : Important vs. Useful ? Either combine or explain rational of the difference.
Kind Regards,
Roger Remy
A daily user of 6 Hats thinking (and strong advocate) and occasional user of Lateral Thinking
Codes can confuse- yet I get the point.
We have long suffered the communication blizzard.
As with any storm, it will blow itself out and only those with mindful purpose and action will survive, with a great mass of others wittering, moaning and displaying, ignored in the background.
The time has come to better manage our communication, to return it to pre-blizzard levels. What we must avoid is further intellectual delusion converted to political decison.
Communication, like netWORKing, requires work to decipher and affirm.
Point well taken.In Cybernetics terminology it is called establishing different challels of communication and developing filters within each to regulate the traffic or flow of information. Human mind does the same. But the problem remains, in the sence, for what is useful for one may be vital for another .Likewise what is information for one may not be so for another.Efforts to reduce the problem are already on.