B Ashley's Page

Edward wrote an article on Democracy for an English newspaper, (it was I think The Sunday Times but I am not sure,) several years ago. It was an inspiring article where he further developed the idea of Democracyfrom the rough and ready version we have at present. It always struck me that after 9/11 the Western World had a choice to show some dignity and present Democracy as the best of the current versions of government in the world. Instead we chose to make it about paranoia, fear and power…See More

Typists generally fall into two camps - those who are trained and those who type with two fingers. And as Edward has pointed out elsewhere if you are a two finger typist practise will only make you a better two finger typist.But I was watching my son the other day on the internet  and he gave every appearance of being a fully trained typist. So I asked him where he had learnt. His reply was that he had taught himself - not from a book or tape or computer based program by rote. He had simply…See More

Edward de Bono has often said that it is the business world which 'gets' lateral thinking because it is a results based world. I was reading recently about the British Army out in Afghanistan and it struck me that the world the frontline soldier inhabits is a similar sort of world with dire consequences if you get it wrong. So I am curious to know if anyone knows whether any armed forces anywhere have been taught lateral thinking in any consistent way. (After all it can't all be drills,…See More