Australia’s hung parliament an ‘opportunity’: Edward de Bono
August 27, 2010 by iainchalmers · 2 Comments
‘Lateral thinking’ guru and author Edward de Bono says Australia’s hung parliament presents a “tremendous opportunity” to walk away from the dominance of the two-party Westminster system, suggesting Labor and the Coalition could put forward its best performers to form a government.
Climate Change
May 26, 2010 by iainchalmers · 1 Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Climate change is not the biggest problem facing humanity. The biggest problem is inadequate thinking. In fact there is an even bigger problem in our ability to see this. Read more
Partial Agreement
April 29, 2010 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
“Nothing is more damaging to the arrogance with which an idea is held than partial agreement.”
Our complacency
March 25, 2010 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Perhaps our real problem is not so much our deficient thinking as I indicated in the last message, but our complacency. We do believe that our thinking is wonderful. Our existing thinking has indeed been wonderful in science and technology – and getting to the moon and beyond.
Yet our poor thinking has been responsible for most of the human disasters such as wars conflicts, persecutions etc. The reason is obvious. We rush to use judgment rather than to design the way forward.
Rewards
October 30, 2009 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Rewards are a powerful way of producing change, though subject to certain limitations. We tend to think of rewards in terms of cash or presents; the model here is getting one’s way through bribery. Unfortunately, the more rewards are used, the weaker the effect. Read more
Why World Thinking is so Poor
September 17, 2009 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
My latest book ‘THINK before it’s too late’ was published at the beginning of July 2009. In this book I trace the history of Western Thinking.
First there were the GG3 (Greek Gang of Three). When Greek thinking came to Europe at the time of the Renaissance schools, universities and thinking were in the hands of the Church. Read more
Try me and find out!
September 3, 2009 by iainchalmers · 1 Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Complacency is very difficult to budge. We are complacent about our education, government etc. etc. Both could be greatly improved. Read more
Design in the curriculum!
August 13, 2009 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Schools are all about knowledge and analysis. So are universities. Most human thinking is based on analysis which allows us to identify standard situations and then we can apply the standard behaviour or solution. This is like a doctor in a clinic diagnosing the disease and then prescribing the standard treatment.
Edward de Bono on small business
August 1, 2009 by iainchalmers · Leave a Comment
An interesting podcast from SmallBizPod featuring Dr Edward de Bono. Alex Bellinger interviews Dr de Bono from an entreprenurial/small business perspective.
Click here to listen
New Book
July 23, 2009 by iainchalmers · 1 Comment
My latest book (published July 2nd) is called ‘THINK: before it is too late’. In it I suggest that the biggest problem facing humanity is not climate change but inadequate thinking. Read more



