December 2009 Blog Posts (7)

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… Continue

Added by Galia Ivanova Milcheva on December 30, 2009 at 23:00 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Franis on December 24, 2009 at 23:30 — 3 Comments

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… Continue

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

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,… Continue

Added by Dina on December 9, 2009 at 19:12 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Phil Bachmann on December 5, 2009 at 6:56 — 1 Comment

"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… Continue

Added by Milos Arambasic on December 2, 2009 at 12:30 — 5 Comments

A mind with many thoughts

My brain is sometime a multitasking machine that cannot stop all ideas. How to sort them out and solve them is the easy part but to bring them from the head to real life is harder. But many of them do become reality in the end....

I love to think here at the de Bono society.......it's making my visions become easier!

Added by Jimmy Lindberg on December 1, 2009 at 19:53 — 2 Comments