The ideal environment for creative thinking

There is no doubt that environment and culture can help but they are certainly not essential to being creative.  Often there is a perceived need to dress down, take people off site, use a specific creative area etc.  These things can help but are not necessary.  The risk here is that people feel they need to be away from the office and out of the normal environment to be creative. 

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NO VAT!

It’s amazing sometimes what’s out there and you just don’t know it. For example, many organisations in this climate are struggling with cash flow. Here’s a tip of which you are very possibly unaware. You can postpone paying your VAT, Personal Tax etc. We receive an excellent Newsletter from a partner of ours, Kirkpatrick and Hopes, and in it was this gem which could help many businesses with their cash flow. If you would like to know more then click here Read more

Setting up an “Ideas Management System”

To be truly creative the mind needs to be stretched to beyond its normal conventional thinking. Lateral Thinking techniques are particularly effective at shifting ones perception of what is possible. It is from within a large number of ideas that the real value is found.

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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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