Edward de Bono était un médecin et auteur maltais, surtout connu pour être l'initiateur du terme "pensée latérale", un concept qui fait référence à la créativité structurée. Il a été un défenseur de premier plan de l'enseignement délibéré de la pensée dans les écoles. Son travail se concentre sur le développement d'approches créatives et innovantes pour la résolution de problèmes. De Bono a souligné l'importance de cultiver intentionnellement la capacité de penser en dehors des schémas conventionnels.
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 feud. De Bono explains how this concept of triangular thinking and map making is the way forward.
In Practical Thinking de Bono's theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should. Based on the results of his famous Black Cylinder Experiment (a critical thinking task that asks participants why they think a black cylinder falls over), de Bono explores the four practical ways of being right.
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 and undefined feelings - none of which can be verbalized.
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 historical perspective and uses some of his famous thinking techniques, such as lateral thinking, combined with new ideas to show us how to change the way we think.
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 the road, for example, your attention would go to that person but, if a bright pink dog wandered past at the same time, your attention would automatically stray to the dog.
In How to Have Creative Ideas Edward de Bono - the leading authority on creative thinking - outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking.
Optimise your thinking, decision making and problem solving with the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.
Whether this is offering other people something to laugh at or helping an elderly person cross the road, through these altruistic acts comes a sense of achievement, and from achievement comes self-esteem and a belief in oneself. 'H' stands for:- Happiness- Help- Hope- Health - and, most importantly, Humour.
De Bono demonstrates that values come into all areas of thinking, behaviour and decision-making and outlines a framework to focus employees' attention on a variety of values including human values, organisational values, cultural values and perceptual values.
