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A biography about Edward de Bono, polymath, writer, and philosopher, who spent his life showing people how to use their brains creatively, to disrupt traditional ideas and ways of doing…
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Edward de Bono
The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain’s different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right…
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Edward De Bono
Provides a basis for value assessment, an essential tool in decision- making for 21st century corporations. De Bono demonstrates that values come into all areas of thinking, behaviour and decision-making…
H+ (Plus) A New Religion? provides a framework for achievement through daily acts of help or contribution.
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Attention is a key part of thinking clearly and productively, and yet we pay very little attention to attention itself. If you see someone lying injured in the middle of…
According to Edward de Bono, world thinking cannot solve world problems because world thinking is itself the problem. De Bono examines why we think the way we do from a…
No matter how you look, if you have a mind that’s fascinating, creative, exciting - if you’re a good thinker - you can be beautiful. And being attractive doesn’t necessarily…
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Outlines games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking.
If we make a deliberate and positive effort to change our thinking we can secure a positive future, and we can harness the focused power of human thinking by releasing…
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First published in 1981, this was the first book ever to be written explicitly for the right side of the reader’s brain. The right side works in images, whole patterns…
The positive revolution also has energy and direction, but its opponents are entrenched patterns in thought. Progress, maintains Edward de Bono - whether on a personal or global scale -…
A person may be physically beautiful, but when speaking to others a dull or ugly or uncreative mind will definitely turn them off. In clear, practical language, de Bono shows…
Western thinking is failing because it was not designed to deal with change In this provocative masterpiece of creative thinking, Edward de Bono argues for a game-changing new way to…
First published in 1977, in this extraordinarily prescient book Edward de Bono sets out his method for achieving the ultimate 21st century goal: work-life balance.
Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term ‘lateral thinking’.
What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with what can be. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems…
It explains why the brain, the ‘mechanism’, can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking that have gone on to inform his life’s work…
If you want to be the best, focus on your most valuable asset: the power of your creative mind As competition and the pace of change intensify, companies and individuals…
People spend vast amounts of money, time and energy to achieve and maintain beauty, and yet despite its undisputed importance few of us devote similar efforts to be interesting. In…
Think, don’t fight.Conflicts argues that instead of our age old system of debate we should adopt what de Bono calls a “design idiom’ and use lateral thinking to navigate a…
Based on the tenet that an error can lead to the right decision, the author guides the reader through a series of non-mathematical problems and puzzles, all designed to help…
Split into short, digestible sections perfect for grazing rather than devouring, Textbook of Wisdom is perfectly designed so you can return again and again, mining for wise words to carry…
Our happiness and success depend on clear thinking. But too many of us are compromised by confusion, trying to do too much at once, and not knowing what to do…
Shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways. This is about freeing up your imagination.
The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to think for themselves. The author shows how any parent can develop the thinking skills of their children. It…
Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite view points are pitted against each other. This book…
Why do some people always seem to have new ideas while others of equal intelligence never do? This book offers the portrayal of what lateral thinking is, how it works…
In Practical Thinking de Bono’s theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should.
Don’t chase the market leader, be the market leader. Edward de Bono, the bestselling author of Serious Creativity and inventor of lateral thinking teaches you how to move beyond the…
Introduces a new way of reasoning and decision making.
From confusing manuals to uninterpretable jargon and bureaucratic red-tape, modern life can be highly complicated and frustrating. For many of us it is almost impossible to make sense of. In…
Using case studies and real-life examples of his six thinking hats , de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing.
La plupart des methodes pour gerer les conflits sont elles-memes conflictuelles !
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Caspar de Bono, Edward de Bono
Flowscapes are maps of our perception. They show the flow of our thinking. By understanding which connections and loops dominate our thinking we can challenge our perception and seek alternatives.
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'Many people believe that if you are intelligent you will automatically be a good thinker. However many intelligent people are poor thinkers because they fall into the 'intelligence trap'. On…
A thought provoking mystery unravels as an Elephant suddenly disappears from the middle of a circus parade. It's up to the novice detective team; the "3Gs" to solve the case…
A summary by Dr. de Bono of his ideas on thinking as they have been presented in his first books. The titles are, The Five Day Course in Thinking, The…
'NO is the basic tool of the logic system. YES is the basic tool of the belief system. PO is the basic tool of the creative system. In the past…
No matter how you look, if you have a mind that’s fascinating, creative, exciting - if you’re a good thinker - you can be beautiful.And being attractive doesn’t necessarily come…
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Use the power of creative thinking to become more attractive with a makeover for your mind.
D.M. Thomas
Imagined by one of the world’s leading experts on Freud, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of the father of psychoanalysis
A book of seven lessons on how to think, not what to think. This Teacher's guide includes student work cards that are also available separately. These Thinking Lessons are the…
