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While there are thousand of people writing software for computers, Edward de Bono is the pioneer in writing software for the human brain.

Edward de Bono was born in Malta and after his initial education at St. Edward's College, Malta, and the Royal University of Malta, where he obtained a degree in medicine, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in psychology and physiology and then a D.Phil. in medicine. He also holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge. He has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard.

Dr. Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.

He originated the concept of lateral thinking (which now has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary) and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking.

He has written sixty-five books with translations in thirty-seven languages. He has also made two television series.

Invited to lecture in forty-five countries and to address major international conferences, he was, in 1989, asked to chair a special meeting of Nobel prize laureates.

His instruction in thinking has been sought by many of the leading business corporations in the world such as IBM, NTT (Japan), Du Pont, Prudential, Shell, Eriksson, McKinseys, Ciba-Geigy, Ford and many others.

Dr. de Bono runs the largest curriculum programme for the direct teaching of thinking in schools. This is in use in many countries around the world.

He is the founder of the Cognitive Research Trust (1969) and the International Creative Forum which brings together many of the leading corporations in the world. He also set up the International Creativity Office in New York to help UN member countries generate fresh ideas.

Dr. de Bono's work is based on

his understanding of the mind

as a

self-organizing

information system.

See I am right - You are wrong (From this to the new renaissance: from rock logic to water logic)

"Because we spend a lot of time thinking about things does not by itself improve our thinking skill.

A journalist who types with two fingers will still be typing with two fingers at the age of sixty.

This is not for lack of typing practice.

Practice in two-finger typing will serve only to make that person a better two-finger typist.

Yet a short course in touch typing at a young age would have made that person a much better typist for all his or her life.

It is the same with thinking. Practice is not enough."

One can … never be sure what the knowledge worker thinks—and yet thinking is her/his specific work; it is his/her "doing."—Peter Drucker

Some of the things Drucker thought about

de Bono snacks and tables of content:

Attention (perception)

Practical Thinking

The Six Value Medals

Why We Need New Thinking About Thinking

Thinking Broad and Thinking Detailed

I Am Right, You Are Wrong

The Mechanism of Mind

Water Logic

Effective thinking course (outline). Thinking Course (book table of contents)

Dense Reading and Dense Listening

Teach Your Child How to Think

Teach Yourself to Think

Six Thinking Hats (simple overview) OR Six Thinking Hats TOC (table of contents with some abbreviated notes)

Six Action Shoes

The Happiness Purpose

H+ (Plus) A New Religion?: How to Live Your Life Positively Through Happiness, Humour, Help, Hope, Health

Handbook For The Positive Revolution

How to Have A Beautiful Mind

Tactics

Sur/petition

Opportunities

Creativity Workout: 62 Exercises to Unlock Your Most Creative Ideas

How to Have Creative Ideas: 62 games to develop the mind

Six Frames (For Thinking about Information)

Conflicts by Edward de Bono

The De Bono Code Book

Wikipedia: Edward de Bono

His books can be found through a Google search, Google Book Search for Edward de Bono or at Amazon.com

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