January 2011 Blog Posts (2)

More thinking is needed for planting trees

In our area, between Dec and Feb is a good period for planting trees, and I have been busy in preparing the planting activities. But when I compare making a mobile phone to planting trees, it seems to me that planting trees need more de Bono's thinking.

The following are some of the reasons:

(1) Each tree is different (Difference between two mobile phones of the same model is insignificant, except the defect units)

(2) Soils and local soil microbes are…

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Added by Raymund Kwok on January 21, 2011 at 15:05 — 4 Comments

Right Brain Lateral Thinking Skills

EDB's Lateral Thinking tools make use of language and therefore engage left side of the brain. What about Visual Thinking that takes place on the right side of the brain and which also is capable of coming up with creative ideas? It could ,for instance,find a solution to how the broken pieces of a plate fit togather by following some systematic trial and error procedure or comeup suddenlywith a flash.Further,it could combine them to form totally a new shape.This latter could be described as… Continue

Added by Bhuvaneshwar Joshi on January 1, 2011 at 6:53 — 3 Comments