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
Flaw in Democracy
May 20, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
Edward de Bono’s Message
There is a fundamental flaw in Democracy which is that certain people such as architects, scientists, engineers etc do not want to enter politics because if they are not re-elected they cannot go back to where they where.
So the people who are in politics are teachers, journalists, lawyers and trade unionists. Such people have no life experience in design and constructive thinking. There is a greater emphasis on argument.
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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.
No natural limit
November 26, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments
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. Read more
More Design
November 5, 2009 by Holst Group · 1 Comment
Edward de Bono’s Message
Our existing thinking is based largely on recognition and judgement. This leads to logic and the search for the truth. While education has promoted analysis, information, logic and argument we have never promoted the thinking concerned with creating value. 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.
