treatment of crisis
February 19, 2009 by Holst Group · 2 Comments
Edward de Bono’s message
At the time of writing this message the conflict and problem in Gazas is still going on. This is a situation which might benefit from some new thinking. How would new ideas be asked for? What effect would they have if just suggested by an individual? Maybe every crisis should have attached to it a formal UN creative team whose business it was to generate and collect new ideas. When I have set up my Palace of Thinking that would be one of its functions. Read more
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.
