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Robert Joseph Fischer How Six Hats Can Facilitate Excellent Financial Stewardship

As an advisor to the affluent and a relatively new Six Hats instructor (I took the certification course in September of last year) , I have been contemplating the most effective way to introduce Six Hats thinking into my practise. I t

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Added by Robert Joseph Fischer on March 7, 2010 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Phil Bachmann Thinking skills to be taught at all Australian schools - not.

The Aussie Govt has decided to have the world's best education system, and had its minions release a draft document explaining what the new curriculum will look like.

It's available at http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au. Has anyone seen it? (You need to create an account to be allowed access.)

Yes "Thinking Skills" is there, but it's listed as a "General Skill" that teachers have been asked to apply to thei

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Added by Phil Bachmann on March 3, 2010 at 8:12am — 18 Comments

Kim Jones Why Is History a Core Subject in Schools?

For too long now we have been driving the car with our eyes firmly fixed on the rear vision mirror. Suddenly - WHAM!! We collide disastrously with the future. Too much intellectual energy in education is wasted on teaching somebody's version of the past. Personally, I always look out of the front windscreen of the car I am driving and only occasionally give a glance to what is happening behind me.

Get my drift?

History is such a safe subject to teach because it is all there… Continue

Added by Kim Jones on March 2, 2010 at 9:47am — 36 Comments

Franis ADMINISTRATION OF THE DE BONO SOCIETY needed NOW !!!

(Wondering why all these blogs seem to be completely SPAM!?) -

That nobody has the reins on the de Bono society and nobody seems to care?

Well, time to talk with someone about it. QUiCKy! e-MAIL SOMEONE!

But - Who to talk with aBoUt ThIS?

Well, good question. Because nobody seems to be in charge here.

It's not as if some of us couldn't remedy this situa
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Added by Franis on February 25, 2010 at 3:30pm — 7 Comments

Ron Rigatoni po - A virtual thinking tower can replace schools.

When you read the latest book "Think!" by de Bono and compare it to one of his older books, you'll soon recognize that the problems have kept the same: his way of teaching thinking is a proven way to improve the mental capability of everyone, but only a few people (compared to all people having access to schools) learn his way of thinking. This may be due to the ignorance of schools or universities or due to the fact that de Bono does a lot to keep his way of thinking something "exclusive" wh

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Added by Ron Rigatoni on February 22, 2010 at 6:37pm — 12 Comments

Robert Joseph Fischer If Eve had Taken a Course on The Six Thinking Hats, Would She Have Eaten the Apple?

How did Eve know?

The Six Hats thinking method, is designed
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Added by Robert Joseph Fischer on February 10, 2010 at 1:29pm — 5 Comments

David Bennett Thanks for today

Just wanted to quickly say: Thank you very much for the great event today at the LSE! Insightful, joyful, peaceful. Wonderful. :-) I will promote you where I can! David Continue

Added by David Bennett on February 2, 2010 at 12:05am — 2 Comments

Franis Process Vrs. Conclusions

Encouragement to come to my own conclusions was started by my much older brother's hobby of keeping snakes. There were many social misconceptions in the late 1950s about the nature of this unusual pet that was endorsed by my family as being appropriate for a five year old. In my first forays out into the world beyond family safety, this unusual situation of being a snake owner made me realize that there were many assumptions held by prevailing social opinion that were plainly wrong. Luckily for… Continue

Added by Franis on February 1, 2010 at 2:58pm — 2 Comments

Ken Sexe Upcoming training sessions and conferences

Hello everyone; I apologize if this question seems a bit obvious for I am new to this website. Is there a location within this website or anywhere else where I can find upcoming training sessions and conferences? I want to attend a Lateral Thinking trainer course so that I may become a certified trainer but I cannot find the information anywhere. I am also interested in any upcoming "thinking-type" conferences that I could attend. Although I am currently in the Middle East I would be intereste… Continue

Added by Ken Sexe on January 17, 2010 at 8:53pm — 2 Comments

Sinclair McLay Raising The Maldives.

"We do not want to leave the Maldives, but we also do not want to be climate refugees living in tents for decades". President Mohamed Nasheed. Raising the Maldives is probably a ridiculous idea, but surely worth some thought. Nothing ventured... We can build islands, like Palm Island and the new Shanghai Container Port. There are over 1190 coral islands and to raise them all might be a tad ambitious but surely some could be raised. We could look at top slicing, mooring islands on chains, spring… Continue

Added by Sinclair McLay on January 9, 2010 at 6:35pm — 5 Comments

George Deden greetings / competition

Hello Franis and Kim, thanks for your welcome messages. SOrry to have missed the competition which obviously ended on December 31, 2009. And apologies for my late response: work and kids keep me busy. Also I am doing a lot of 'lateral thinking' about a couple of new businesses I am launching at the moment; these are a bit different from what I did during my last 15 years of self-employment. BOY is this world fascinatingly intersting! Incidentally, if anyone wonders: I'm the one on the left of th… Continue

Added by George Deden on January 6, 2010 at 3:07am — No Comments

Franis Parallel Response

There is another big hole that is most often missing from most people’s “bag of tricks” concerning the training of new skills. It is the zero state of ‘being at ease’. This would be a resting state in between activating one trigger for a habitually conditioned routine that would be inserted between endless calls for action. Being able to "think of nothing" is actually a skill. Problems come when our natural capacity for having a ‘resting state’ becomes polluted with too many directives that are… Continue

Added by Franis on January 5, 2010 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

Kim Jones Another Perspective on the Red Hat

Why do we have emotions? Aren't simple, value-conferring feelings good enough or something? Emotions cause a host of extraordinary, beautiful and wondrous things to happen in life as well as all sorts of nonsensical and disastrous issues in the world. Let's look at this a bit more carefully... A worm probably doesn't have emotions but we might just allow that it has feelings. There is much evidence to support this, apparently. Do we have emotions because we are noble, sensitive, artistic, exp… Continue

Added by Kim Jones on January 2, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

George Deden New De Bono Society Member

Hello, I am a self-employed, German national who has lived in Hong Kong for 25 years. I am 51 years old, married with 2 children. Jointly with my wife I also run a charity for poor people in Sri Lanka (the home country of my wife). Although I am still learning the various De Bono thinking techniques 'properly' (BLUSH!), I THINK I have already applied some rather successfully in the past, especially in my business dealings. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE to learn about the De Bono way of thinking skills and a… Continue

Added by George Deden on January 1, 2010 at 2:56am — 2 Comments

Galia Ivanova Milcheva Six Thinking Hats - teaching of literature in Bulgarian primary school

Dear, Mr. Bono My name is Galia Ivanova Milcheva. I live in Bulgaria, Burgas. I work as a primary teacher. Accidentally a few days ago I found out about your competition announced for creative people. My ambition is to be part of a good school. I know that if you want to achieve something, you have to do everything by yourself. So, I want to see how it is taught in good European schools and then compare with my work. Your idea motivates me and even the last day I will share my experience to impl… Continue

Added by Galia Ivanova Milcheva on December 30, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Franis Drawbacks of Thinking and Innovation

Many of the advantages of "thinking" have been misunderstood. The other day I heard someone say, "You're thinking too much." Perhaps the content of what is concluded by having thought is so often confused with the process that was used to arrive at the result. Content is dazzling; it's a big appeal that a person can innovate or problem solve. People want to arrive at their goal and don't see to care much how they get there. It results in not being able to repeat the performance. This focus on e… Continue

Added by Franis on December 24, 2009 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Franis Minimizing Argumentation & Debate Models - de Bono's Tools Helps Women's Rights.

Despite lip service to the value of women's rights, if a woman speaks up with an idea in a room of guys - it's still quite often that one of the guys needs to repeat the idea before anyone will recognize it has been said. Many women will not present their ideas in a group situation. Those of both sexes forgo participation because they want to avoid competition and argumentative attack. Many believe this sort of challenging to be a sign of respect. Those who merely refuse to spar in this manner,… Continue

Added by Franis on December 15, 2009 at 6:55am — 4 Comments

Dina Desprecio bajo ruedas

Desprecio bajo ruedas Paradojas argentinas… Argentinadas… Pura y simple carencia de aprecio por la vida propia y ajena…. Viajar en auto es un placer…o una historia de terror, donde nunca se tiene por seguro el regreso a casa. Casi siempre que se habla de accidentes de transito, se menciona el factor humano, como causa del problema. Cierto. Pero son tan humanos, quienes conducen un vehiculo, tanto como quienes diseñan la estructura vial, sobre la que se desplaza el rodado. En este post… Continue

Added by Dina on December 9, 2009 at 7:12pm — No Comments

Phil Bachmann Competition Entry - The All Cars story

All Cars is a Melbourne based chauffeured car business that wanted to provide a job despatch service which would offload surplus work between themselves and other operators. They tried many different systems over the years: trunk radio, SMS, paging services and email. They tried for more than five years. Some of these schemes meandered along like a car with three flat tires, while others went straight over a cliff. Always there were perfectly reasonable explanations as to why things went wron… Continue

Added by Phil Bachmann on December 5, 2009 at 6:56am — 2 Comments

Milos Arambasic "Master disaster"

My experience of creative thinking is based on a common thing here in Serbia when you work in a small family company. I used to work as a sales manager, and my job description among other jobs was to find new clients all around the world. One day, my director came in to my office and asked me very kindly could i go to the local shop and by some products for his father. I did not refused him. After two days, his father came and asked me a same thing, but now there was a list of products ( Low… Continue

Added by Milos Arambasic on December 2, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

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