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  Edward DE BONO - Vikipedio
Edward DE BONO (li naskiĝis 1933 en Malto) estas brita kuracisto, kiu verkis pli ol 60 librojn pri pensado kaj trejnas samkampe.
Edward de Bono iniciatis fondon de SITO - Supernacia Organizaĵo por Sendependa Pensado - kies sidejo estas en Malta.
De Bono skribis ankaŭ multajn artikolojn por ĵurnaloj, inter ili The Lancet kaj Clinical Science.
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 Edward De Bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward de Bono (previously known as david hurley, the guy witth the fuzzy wuzzy hair) (born 1933) is a psychologist and physician.
De Bono writes prolifically on subjects of lateral thinking, a concept he believes to have pioneered and now holds training seminars in.
De Bono's work has become particularly popular in the sphere of business - perhaps because of the perceived need to restructure corporations, to allow more flexible working practices and to innovate in products and services.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_De_Bono   (521 words)

  
 Ovations - Edward De Bono   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono was born in Malta in 1933.
Edward de Bono's special contribution has been to take the mystical subject of creativity and, for the first time in history, to put the subject on a solid basis.
In 1997 Dr de Bono was invited to be one of the major speakers at the first ecology conference to be held in Beijing, China.
www.ovations.com.au /bios/EdwardDeBono.shtml   (1208 words)

  
 The de Bono Group
De Bono is optimistic Japan can think its way out of its crisis: "The ability to work is already in place, the capital structure is there and I think fundamentally that Japan can be creative.
De Bono coined the term "lateral thinking," the first time anyone had put creativity on a logical basis, identifying the brain as a self-organizing information system, he said, that forms asymmetrical patterns.
Dr. de Bono has applied his thinking skills to a variety of subjects from business and economics to foreign policy and education and has set up an international network of 950 accredited instructors to teach his theories to governments, companies and other institutions.
www.debonogroup.com /interviews.htm   (5568 words)

  
 Edward de Bono on Management-Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono is renowned as the world's leading authority in the field of creative thinking.
Dr de Bono's wrote the book The Mechanism of Mind in 1969 and today, over 35 years later, the basic principles outlined in that book are now mainstream thinking in the mathematics of self-organising systems and in the design of neuro-computers.
Edward de Bono looks at the benefits of finding new ideas in areas where no problems can be found.
www.management-issues.com /display_section.asp?section=thought_leaders&id=116   (706 words)

  
 The man with six hats - The Manufacturer.com - Promoting best practices in manufacturing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono talks with presidents and kings, chairman and chief executives, Noble Prize winners, teachers and children, commanding upwards of $30,000 a day to corporations, but working for free in education.
It was his research in physiology and computers that led to his model of the mechanism of the mind, and which has since formed the basis of all his thinking programmes.
In November 2001, de Bono spoke at a meeting at UNESCO in Paris, attended by senior people from the worlds of politics, business, health and ecology.
www.themanufacturer.com /uk/detail.html?contents_id=320   (2028 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Six Thinking Hats: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
De Bono reports that this process reduces time spent in meetings by 20 to 90 percent, based on experiences reported to him since the book was first published.
De Bono himself makes this statement: "The Six Thinking Hats method may well be the most important change in human thinking for the past twenty-three hundred years." You'll have to decide for yourself, if the book lives up to that claim.
De Bono makes two interesting comments about how all this leads to decisions: "In the end, all decisions are really red hat." But we should assume that it is a more informed set of emotions and feelings than would exist otherwise.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140296662   (1720 words)

  
 Edward de Bono - The London Speaker Bureau
Edward de Bono is regarded as the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking.
de Bono was the first to base his development of thinking tools on the way the brain handles information.
Edward de Bono has made two major TV series, a 10 part series, 'de Bono's Thinking Course', made for the BBC, and a 13 part series,'The Greatest Thinkers', sponsored by IBM and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=29   (366 words)

  
 Edward de Bono
Dr de Bono is regarded as the leading international authority in conceptual and creative thinking and in the teaching of thinking as a skill.
What is so special about Dr de Bono is that instead of his work remaining hidden in academic texts he has made it practical and available to everyone, from school children to senior executives in major corporations.
Dr de Bono designed and runs the CoRT Thinking Program, which is internationally the most widely used method for the teaching of thinking on schools and is in use in many countries around the world.
www.ie.metu.edu.tr /~ie404/Persons/deBono/deBono.html   (506 words)

  
 Edward de Bono, creator of Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, & Management Thinking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono, creator of Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, and Management Thinking, is regarded as the leading international authority on creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking skills.
Born in Malta, Dr. de Bono was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard.
Although Dr. de Bono's methods are based on a fundamental understanding of how the brain handles information, they are designed to be very simple and practical and are being used by corporate executives, Nobel Prize laureates, and four-year olds alike.
www.innovatraining.com /creators.htm   (249 words)

  
 Edward de Bono - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard.
Dr de Bono runs the most widely used programme for the direct teaching of thinking in schools.
Dr de Bono's key contribution has been his understanding of the brain as a self-organizing system.
us.penguingroup.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000003100,00.html?sym=BIO   (322 words)

  
 ICIS Resources: Inspirations: Dr. Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
Dr. de Bono is currently the chairman of the Council of Young Enterprise Europe which has a membership of 1,500,000 youngsters across Europe, Israel and Russia who set up mini-businesses while at school.
Dr. de Bono has established the World Academy of New Thinking(tm) (WANT) which is an association of those who believe in the need for new thinking.
www.iciscenter.org /html/4_resources/inspiration03.htm   (340 words)

  
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What true creative thinking needs, de Bono argues, “is the freedom – prescribed when necessary – to move freely and loosely from side to side, laterally, as it were, seeking the improbable and the unlikely”.
Dr. de Bono’s techniques enable those trained, to use creativity as a tangible business commodity that can be harnessed on demand for deliberate competitive advantage.
The exclusive distributor of de Bono’s thinking tools in Canada, MICA has helped thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies ignite innovative into their business and realize significant, tangible gains.
www.micaworld.com /seminars/seminarsabout.aspx?Page=1027   (491 words)

  
 Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a leading expert in creative thinking.
Edward de Bono is regarded by many to be the world's leading authority in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
Edward de Bono's proven methods provide a deliberate, systematic process that will result in innovative thinking.
www.illumine.co.uk /edward-de-bono.htm   (310 words)

  
 TIP: Theories
Edward de Bono has written extensively about the process of lateral thinking -- the generation of novel solutions to problems.
De Bono identifies four critical factors associated with lateral thinking: (1) recognize dominant ideas that polarize perception of a problem, (2) searching for different ways of looking at things, (3) relaxation of rigid control of thinking, and (4) use of chance to encourage other ideas.
Although De Bono does not acknowledge any theoretical antecedents for lateral thinking, it seems closely related to the Gestalt theory of Wertheimer.
tip.psychology.org /debono.html   (368 words)

  
 Dr. Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is regarded as the leading international authority in the field of innovative thinking and the teaching of thinking as a skill.
Edward de Bono's innovative thinking techniques are now being implemented in organizations of all sizes because of their effectiveness and their power to change thinking behavior.
Born in Malta, Dr. Edward de Bono was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard.
www.debonoonline.com /Edward_de_Bono.asp   (238 words)

  
 EDWARD DE BONO - BIOGRAPHY
The term 'lateral thinking' was introduced by Edward de Bono and is now so much part of the language that it is used equally in a physics lecture and in a television comedy.
In 1997 Dr de Bono has been invited to be one of the major speakers at the first ecology conference to be held in Beijing, China.
When the US Defense University held their first ever symposium on creativity they asked Dr de Bono to open it by telephone from Helsinki, in Finland, where he was at the time.
www.edwdebono.com /debono/biograph.htm   (2125 words)

  
 Edward de Bono - Personal Bio
Edward de Bono is the originator of the concept - and formal tools - of Lateral Thinking, which is now a part of language enjoying an entry in the Oxford Dictionary.
de Bono was the Chairman of the Council of Young Enterprise Europe which had a membership of 1,500,000 youngsters across Europe, Israel and Russia who set up mini-businesses whilst at school.
de Bono established the World Centre for New Thinking which acts as a platform and channel to make visible New Thinking from any source.
www.edwarddebono.com /about.htm   (612 words)

  
 edward de bono
Edward de Bono, creator of the Six Thinking Hats concept and the Six Thinking Hats training programme, is regarded as the world's leading authority on creative and conceptual thinking.
de Bono has spent a lifetime refining thins process and putting it into practice in leading organisiations around the world.
De Bono is the author of over 80 books which have been translated into 32 languages.
www.edwarddebonofoundation.com /edwardde.htm   (135 words)

  
 de Bono programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dr Edward de Bono is regarded as the world's leading authority on creative and conceptual thinking.
Dr de Bono has spent a lifetime refining this process and putting it into practice in leading organisations around the world.
The de Bono Institute is a public research and education centre, located in Melbourne.
www.mindwerx.com.au /de_bono_programs.htm   (1480 words)

  
 Edward de Bono
Quite different from the rest of de Bono's output, this pack and its companion provide everything you need to exercise the brain, with a series of games and puzzles and the accompanying objects to make it work.
This de Bono classic defines a very effective way of managing a meeting by splitting the group interaction into six different styles and allowing the participants to actively manage the process.
Another of de Bono's set of six - this time groupings of values - the attributes that can be used as criteria in making decisions - providing a structure for making things happen.
www.cul.co.uk /books/bcauth2.htm   (674 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Simplicity: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono not only makes the case for simplicity but he exhorts us to pursue it and he gives us a framework for doing so.
Indeed, in illustrating a point in the book, de Bono says that he could have made the book - by which I assume he is referring to the main text on the right hand pages - shorter (simpler) but his publishers told him that it had to be a certain length!
De Bono also exposes the motives behind those too superior to read or write simlified texts, let this be a warning to everyone predisposed to French Philosophical meanderings.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140258396   (969 words)

  
 Edward De Bono And Robert Heller Launch Thinking Managers Website : ArriveNet Press Releases : Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
De Bono asserts that creativity can and must be learnt in the vital interests of performance and progress in today's business world.
De Bono's articles and many books show how the use of thinking as a practical skill helps business people and organisations to exploit what they have and to create the new ideas that will revolutionise their futures.
Like Edward de Bono, he is the author of many highly acclaimed books, starting with the famous The Naked Manager, and including most recently the best-selling Essential Managers series.
press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/508979.html   (520 words)

  
 Edward de Bono bio
Edward de Bono was born in Malta and after his initial education at St. Edward's College, Malta, and the Royal University of Malta, where he obtained a degree in medicine, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in psychology and physiology and then a D.Phil.
Dr. Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
Dr. de Bono runs the largest curriculum programme for the direct teaching of thinking in schools.
homepage.mac.com /bobembry/studio/biz/conceptual_resources/authors/edward_de_bono/edb_bio.html   (388 words)

  
 I Am Right You Are Wrong - Edward de Bono - Penguin Group (USA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dr Edward de Bono, well known world-wide for his origination of lateral thinking, puts forward a direct challenge to what he calls the rock logic of Western thinking.
Edward de Bono believes that this thinking cannot provide the constructive energies that we are going to need in order to solve problems and create a better future as we move towards the year 2000.
Edward de Bono expects his ideas to outrage conventional thinkers, yet time has been on his side, and the ideas that he first put forward twenty years ago in his book The Mechanism of Mind are now accepted mainstream thinking.
us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140126783,00.html   (191 words)

  
 Edward de bono - Edward De Bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward de Bono is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on creativity and conceptual thinking.
Edward de Bono - quotation - part of a larger collection of Wisdom Quotes to challenge and inspire.
Dr Edward de Bono was born in Malta and after his initial education at St. Edward’s College, Malta, and the Royal University of Malta, where he obtained a
www.dalq.com /edward-de-bono.html   (276 words)

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