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- New Thinking for the New Millennium
, UK Edition
- New Thinking for the New Millennium
, US Edition
by Edward De Bono
This text argues that the scientific and technological advances of the last millennium have not been matched by advances in the way we think. The author believes that the emphasis in thinking on what is needs to be changed to what can be if we are to resolve the conflicts of the past. The manual is also an introduction to a very comprehensive coding system which enables us to communicate in a higher order language. Perceptions formed in the past at a stage of relative ignorance are frozen into language and force us to see the world in an obsolete way: this new language allows the creation and use of novel and complex concepts.
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- De Bono's Thinking Course, US Edition
- De Bono's Thinking Course, UK Edition
by Edward De Bono
Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking? In this newly revised and provocative book, Edward de Bono further develops and demonstrates how the techniques of thinking can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and the use of simple tools, such as the amazingly effective random-word technique for creativity. He shows that the operating skill is, in fact, quite different from intelligence and reveals how many highly intelligent people are actually bad thinkers because they are caught in the "intelligence trap". Each part of the book covers an important aspect of thinking, such as decisions, emotions and action, and is fully illustrated with his own diagrams. Edward de Bono is considered by many to be the world's leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. His lessons are widely used in many countries with millions of pupils ranging from six-year-olds to adults. He has written 45 books which have been translated into 27 languages including Russian, Hebrew and Japanese and his instruction in thinking has been sought by many large corporations and governments around the world. He has also set up the International Creativity Office in New York to work with the UN and other international bodies and has been invited to lecture in 51 different countries.
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- De Bono's Supermind Pack, US Edition
- De Bono's Supermind Pack, UK Edition
by Edward De Bono
Like muscles, the mind can be flexed, stretched, exercised, and strengthened. Edward de Bono, originator of the concept "lateral thinking" and author of numerous books on creative thought, here offers an intriguing packet designed to expand your thinking through 30 games specifically designed to focus on certain mental aspects.
In today's world, it is not enough just to have intelligence; you have to know how to use it. "Intelligence is like the horsepower of a car," de Bono argues. "Thinking skills are like the driving skills with which a car is driven." De Bono's Super Mind Pack is designed to improve those skills to help you get the most from your native intelligence. The pack consists of 14 games that can be played in a number of ways. De Bono's included book, Thinking for Action, lays out the basis of his philosophy of thinking, explains how to play the games and what you will get out of them, and offers a number of exercises that will stimulate your imagination and help you explore new avenues of thought. Think of it as an aerobics class for your mind.
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- The 5 Day Course in Thinking, US Edition
- The 5 Day Course in Thinking, UK Edition
by Edward De Bono
This book offers a series of problems in thinking that require no special knowledge and no mathematics. The problems are designed to let readers find out about their personal style of thinking, its weaknesses and strengths, and the potential methods that they never use. Being right is not always important - an error can lead to the right decision. A copy of the L-game is inserted in each book for use in the section on strategy.
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- Practical Thinking; 4 Ways to Be Right, 5 Ways to Be Wrong, 5 Ways to Understand
by Edward De Bono
How is it that in an argument both sides are always right? Dr. Edward de Bono bases this book on the Black Cylinder Experiment, with 1,000 participants, from which he derived that debaters fall into four categories of "rightness": emotional, logical, unique, and recognition rightness. In addition to exploring these four states, de Bono names five levels of understanding and five major mistakes of thinking.
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Teach Yourself How to Think UK Edition
- Teach Yourself How to Think - Audio Cassette - US Edition
by Edward De Bono
Thinking is the most fundamental skill. This book provides a clear, easy-to-follow five-stage structure as a framework for thinking, which aims to broaden the ability to respond to and cope with a vast range of situations. The five stages are: the TO stage - where am I going to? - with what do I want to end up?; the LO stage - looking around at the situation - what information is available and needed and what are the perceptions?; the PO stage - generating possiblities - setting up alternatives and new ideas; the SO stage - choosing from among the possiblities - reducing the choices to a line of action; and the GO stage - going ahead and putting thinking into action.
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- Simplicity
by Edward De Bono
This text argues that in an increasingly complex world, "simplicity" is going to be a key value. The pace of change is not going to stop so we have to make a conscious effort to make things simpler. Edward de Bono shows that very often a lateral thinking approach can simplify a complex matter.
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- Six Action Shoes
by Edward De Bono
As a specialist in creativity, Edward de Bono - whose instruction has been sought by corporations such as IBM, DuPont, and Ford, and by the governments of the US, Brazil, and Singapore - here identifies a simple "six shoes" approach to taking control of situations. The author lays out the events and actions associated with each of the six types of "shoes", and explains that while someone may naturally be better at responding in one particular mode - say taking emergency action ("orange gumboots") rather than accumulating information ("grey sneakers") - the truly successful person will master all six action modes and learn to tailor his or her actions to the situations at hand. The author has previously written "Lateral Thinking" and "Six Thinking Hats".
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- Teach Yourself to Think
by Edward De Bono
Thinking is the most fundamental skill. This book provides a clear, easy-to-follow five-stage structure as a framework for thinking, which aims to broaden the ability to respond to and cope with a vast range of situations. The five stages are: the TO stage - where am I going to? - with what do I want to end up?; the LO stage - looking around at the situation - what information is available and needed and what are the perceptions?; the PO stage - generating possiblities - setting up alternatives and new ideas; the SO stage - choosing from among the possiblities - reducing the choices to a line of action; and the GO stage - going ahead and putting thinking into action.
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- Sur Petition
by Edward De Bono
This reprint, by the author of "Six Action Shoes" and "Serious Creativity", shows businesses how to move creatively beyond old competitive strategies.
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- Tactics
by Edward De Bono
What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? A touch of madness? Edward de Bono talked to 50 outstandingly successful men and women, all of whom spoke frankly about their own strategy. Among them were David Bailey, Sir Terence Conran, Robert Maxwell, Jackie Stewart, Sir Clive Sinclair, Virginia Wade, Lord Forte and Verity Lambert. De Bono then distilled their wisdom and experience and turned it into a practical strategy that anyone can follow in order to achieve their own ambitions in life and work. The result was this book.
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- How to Be More Interesting
by Edward De Bono
People spend vast amounts of money, time and trouble to achieve and maintain beauty, and yet despite its undisputed importance few devote similar efforts to being interesting. Edward de Bono demonstrates in this book, that anyone can acquire this crucial, life enhancing skill.
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- Parallel Thinking
by Edward De Bono
The premise of this book is that in today's rapidly changing world the thinking of the traditional thinkers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, based on analysis, judgement and argument, is no longer enough. De Bono argues that we need to move towards a more constructive, creative and design-based system of thought. The book outlines the techniques and applications of parallel thinking in both personal and professional life.
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- Serious Creativity
by Edward De Bono
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".
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- Handbook for the Positive Revolution
by Edward De Bono
In hundreds of little, often aphoristic, "print-byten," de Bono builds on his popular I am right--you are wrong (Viking, 1991), demonstrating how we can change ourselves and the world with positive and constructive attitudes. Kind of a New Age Dale Carnegie. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --
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