All Blog Posts Tagged 'competition' (6)

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

Competition Entry: Part 1 of 4

In discussing how the application of de Bono's methods lead to my success, I should point out that there are various definitions of success and many people would not rate mine highly.

My stories do not including the making of millions of dollars. Maybe I've been unlucky, or lazy, or missing some key ingredient in the recipe, or spending too much time doing things that I enjoy, hoping that these could be made profitable. Perhaps subconsciously I don't want to get stuck half-way up the… Continue

Added by Phil Bachmann on July 12, 2009 at 11:09 — 6 Comments

A Lateral Look at the Dynamics of Organizational Change

Edward de Bono’s work has had a significant effect on my thinking since the late 1960s. His early books, such as The Mechanism of Mind, Lateral Thinking, Lateral Thinking for Management, and Po – Beyond Yes and No, were particularly influential; although there were many other nuggets to mine from later volumes. However, I don’t want to talk here about the use that I have made of these insights, tools and techniques in terms of creative thinking per se. Rather,… Continue

Added by Chris Rodgers on June 24, 2009 at 13:00 — 3 Comments

My Competition Entry

I have had a lifetime of benefits from using de Bono's creative thinking ideas, even though I have merely enjoyed the humble success of an interesting and creative life. My choices have led me to put time to be creative ahead as a priority, which has turned out to have been a rewarding, satisfying and happy choice.

I'll start out with how I used de Bono's thinking skills in the first five years after I ran into them from reading one little book called "PO". This book was the start of… Continue

Added by Franis on May 29, 2009 at 20:00 — 4 Comments

Making it a part of normal business

The greatest challenge is not so much in the huge perspective shifts or the developing that novel world altering idea, rather it is in making the tools a part of normal day to day business. The real value of the tools is lost if they are seen solely as a means of “wiz-bang” problem solving.

Here in the Victorian State Government in Australia, we have now trained over 500 staff in the use of the Six Thinking Hats and are now starting to roll… Continue

Added by Frank Connolly on April 6, 2009 at 15:30 — 1 Comment

My Success Story

As a managing director of a small IT company I faced with a difficult decision regarding the strategic direction of the company. After several away days with arguments at board and management level a friend recommended I try the six hats approach.

In 2 hours we had clearly and fairly discussed seven different options. 2 hours afterward that we had identified which direction to go in with buy in from all key members of staff.

I'm sure this is not as significant as some of… Continue

Added by Sean Kirwan on March 19, 2009 at 17:29 — No Comments