Edward de Bono

The internationally bestselling guide to better thinking used by tens of thousands of people - fully revised and updated. The need for the Six Hats is based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking. Using this method one major corporation reduced the time taken for multinational project discussions from thirty days to just two days. Argument is inefficient, ineffective and extremely slow. Argument was never designed to be constructive. The parallel thinking of the six hats is rapidly replacing argument around the world. For two-thousand-four-hundred years we have been content with argument which was never designed to be constructive. Discovering 'what is' may not be the same as designing 'what can be'.

Six Thinking Hats

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls �vertical thinking�. This works well in simple situations � but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. After reading this book you will become a much more productive and formidable thinker.

A Textbook of Creativity

Lateral Thinking

Despite the modern day emphasis on physical appearance, there is an easier way to become a desirable person rather than dieting or buying expensive clothes. Regardless of outer appearance, if people have minds that are fascinating, creative, and exciting--if they are good thinkers--they can be beautiful. The clear, practical instructions in this guide demonstrate how applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to conversation can improve the mind. The greatest impact is made on others through speech, and by learning how to listen, make a point, and maneuver a discussion, anyone can become more imaginative, more engaging, and more beautiful.

How to Have a Beautiful Mind

Outlines a simple program for helping children develop clear and constructive thinking, covering such matters as making decisions, taking initiatives, and creativity

Teach Your Child How to Think

Creativity is becoming increasingly important for all businesses as competition intensifies because to act creatively is the best and cheapest way to get added value out of existing resources and assets. In this book, the author brings up-to-date the core concept of his book Lateral Thinking.

Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Serious Creativity

The world is full of problems and conflicts. So why can we not solve them? This book examines why we think the way we do from a historical perspective and uses some of the author's famous thinking techniques combined with fresh ideas to show us how to change the way we think.

Before It's Too Late

Think!

From back: " ... demonstrates how to think more effectively through attention, practice and a series of exercises."

De Bono's Thinking Course

From Rock Logic to Water Logic

I Am Right You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance

The Use of Lateral Thinking

Edward De Bono outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to encourage creativity and lateral thinking.

62 Exercises to Develop the Mind

How to Have Creative Ideas

Simplicity

Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together. With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?

"In a world saturated with facts and figures as never before, how do we focus our attention to make the most of information at our fingertips? Using his 'six frames' technique, Edward de Bono, the father of Lateral Thinking, shows us how to direct our attention in a conscious manner, rather than always letting it get pulled to the unusual and irrelevant. Just as we can decide to look north, west, or even south-east, so can we set up a framework for directing our attention, and, like all of de Bono's techniques, it is simple, effective, and will utterly change the way you interpret information."--Cover.

For Thinking about Information

Six Frames

El ya famoso experto en creatividad a inventor del proceso del pensamiento lateral Edward De Bono demuestra en esta obra, ya definitiva, que referirse al pensamiento creativo no es ninguna utopia: en el fondo, las herramientas formales de la creatividad se basan en la logica de los sistemas de autoorganizacion, lejos del modelo fantasioso al que nos han acostumbrado ciertos investigadores con sus teorias. Este es un libro, pues, que se convertira con el tiempo en un imprescindible manual de creatividad. Los mas de veinticinco anos de experiencia, investigacion y reflexion de su autor hacen de el una obra poderosa y fundamental para los que deban utilizar el pensamiento creativo en su vida cotidiana, tanto en la empresa como en otros lugares. Y la efectividad de las tecnicas que expone nos reafirma que este tipo de pensamiento no es ya cuestion de talento, temperamento o suerte, sino una habilidad mas que podemos cultivar y desarrollar Edward De Bono, creador del pensamiento lateral, ha ocupado varios cargos en las universidades de Oxford, Cambridge, Londres y Harvard. Es tambien autor de Ideas para profesionales que piensan, El pensamiento practico, Seis pares de zapatos para la accion, Mas a11a de la competencia, La revolucion positiva, El pensamiento lateral, El pensamiento paralelo, Logica fluida, Aprende a pensar por ti mismo y Como atraer el interes de los demas, todos ellos igualmente publicados por Paidos.

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