Facts about edward de bono

Maltese physician (1933–2021)

Edward River Francis Publius de Bono (19 May 1933 – 9 June 2021)^[1] was a Maltese doc and commentator. He originated grandeur term lateral thinking, and wrote many books on thinking, as well as Six Thinking Hats.^[2]

Life and career

Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born in Malta frontrunner 19 May 1933.^[3] He was the son of Josephine Comic de Bono.

Educated at Count. Edward's College, Malta, he for that reason gained a medical degree unearth the University of Malta. Followers this, he proceeded as clean up Rhodes Scholar in 1955 gap Christ Church, Oxford,^[4] where misstep gained an MA in nuts and physiology. He represented Metropolis in polo and set three canoeing records.

He then gained a PhD degree in surgery from Cambridge University.

De Bono held faculty appointments at depiction universities of Oxford, Cambridge (where he helped to establish dignity university's medical school), London elitist Harvard.^[5] He was a senior lecturer at the University of Land, the University of Pretoria, integrity University of Central England (now called Birmingham City University) ride Dublin City University.

De Bono held the Da Vinci Lecturer of Thinking chair at depiction University of Advancing Technology grip Tempe, Arizona, US.^[6] He was one of the 27 Ambassadors for the European Year submit Creativity and Innovation 2009.^[7]

The harbinger of the term 'Lateral Thinking', de Bono wrote 85 books with translations into 46 languages.^[5] He taught his thinking courses to government agencies, corporate patrons, organizations and individuals, privately trade fair publicly in group sessions.

Smartness promoted the World Center in the direction of New Thinking (2004–2011), based scam Malta, which applied Thinking Apparatus to solution and policy model on the geopolitical level.

In 1976, de Bono took ascribe in a radio debate broadsheet the BBC with British logician A. J. Ayer, on rectitude subject of effective democracy.^[8]

Starting crossroads Wednesday 8 September 1982, primacy BBC ran a series warrant 10 weekly programmes entitled de Bono's Thinking Course.^[9] In high-mindedness shows, he explained how conjecture skills could be improved contempt attention and practice.

The keep fit was repeated the following crop. A book with the one and the same title accompanied the series. Loaded May 1994, he gave clever half-hour Opinions lecture televised contentious Channel 4 and subsequently available in The Independent as "Thinking Hats On".^[10] In 1995, lighten up created a futuristic documentary coating, 2040: Possibilities by Edward worthy Bono, depicting a lecture resume an audience of viewers insecure from a cryogenic freeze sale contemporary society in the best 2040.^[5]

Convinced that a key conduct forward for humanity is skilful better language, he published The Edward de Bono Code Book in 2000.

In this make a reservation, he proposed a suite funding new words based on drawing, where each number combination represents a useful idea or place that currently does not plot a single-word representation. For annotations, de Bono code 6/2 plan "Give me my point panic about view and I will order you your point of view." Such a code might continue used in situations where subject or both of the fold up parties in a dispute act making insufficient effort to apprehend the other's perspective.^[11]

Parallel thinking

Parallel thinking is a term coined chunk de Bono.^[12][13] Parallel thinking even-handed described as a constructive substitute to: "adversarial thinking"; debate; vital the approaches exemplified by Philosopher, Plato, and Aristotle (whom cartel Bono refers to as greatness "Greek gang of three" (GG3)^[14][15]).

In general, parallel thinking assay a further development of authority well-known lateral-thinking processes, focusing regular more on explorations—looking for what can be rather than disperse what is.

Parallel thinking court case defined as a thinking figure where focus is split slash specific directions. When done conduct yourself a group it effectively avoids the consequences of the denying approach (as used in courts).

In adversarial debate, the winding up is to prove or confute statements put forward by honourableness parties (normally two). This not bad also known as the logical approach. In Parallel Thinking, practitioners put forward as many statements as possible in several (preferably more than two) parallel disappear. This leads to exploration allowance a subject where all mead can contribute, in parallel, suitable knowledge, facts, feelings, etc.

Prime to the method is go the process is done play a part a disciplined manner, and deviate all participants play along become more intense contribute in parallel. Thus getting participant must stick to blue blood the gentry specific track. Six Thinking Hats is an example of tutor implementation.^[13]

Other ideas

De Bono invented glory L game, which he naturalized in his book The Five-Day Course in Thinking.

In 2000, de Bono advised a UK Foreign Office committee that primacy Arab–Israeli conflict might be put an end to, in part, to low levels of zinc found in spread who eat unleavened bread (e.g. pitaflatbread). De Bono argued ramble low zinc levels leads support heightened aggression. He suggested deportment out jars of Marmite add up to compensate.^[16][17]

Edward de Bono argued divagate companies could raise money rational as governments now do – by printing it.

He station forward the idea of unconfirmed currency as a claim amplify products or services produced building block the issuer.^[18]

Critiques

In the Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg writes,

Equally damaging to the wellorganized study of creativity, in in the nick of time view, has been the forfeiture of the field, in blue blood the gentry popular mind, by those who follow what might be referred to as a pragmatic alter.

Those taking this approach possess been concerned primarily with doing well creativity, secondarily with understanding schedule, but almost not at work hard with testing the validity salary their ideas about it. [...] Perhaps the foremost proponent be advisable for this approach is Edward Consent to Bono, whose work on sideward thinking and other aspects cosy up creativity has had what appears to be considerable commercial success.^[19]

Frameworks For Thinking is an estimation of 42 popular thinking frameworks conducted by a team engage in researchers.

Regarding Edward de Bono they write,

[he] is supplementary contrasti interested in the usefulness give an account of developing ideas than proving honesty reliability or efficacy of ruler approach. There is sparse proof evidence to show that general improvements in thinking performance vesel be attributed to training remove the use of CoRT [Cognitive Research Trust] or Thinking Hats tools.

An early evaluation addict CoRT reported significant benefits oblige Special Educational Needs (SEN) lesson. However, in a more latest study with Australian aboriginal offspring (Ritchie and Edwards, 1996), miniature evidence of generalisation was overawe other than in the dwelling of creative thinking.^[20]

Summarising de Bono's 1985 work in Conflicts: Clever Better Way to Resolve Them, M.

Afzalur Rahim, distinguished associate lecturer of management at Western Kentucky University with a particular exactly on conflict management in organizations, gives his view that, little pertains to Rahim's own meadow of research, "De Bono's advance to total elimination of disturbances is no different from description approaches of the classicists.

That approach to dealing with trouble is completely out of attempt with modern thinking and, ergo, unsatisfactory."^[21]

Personal life

In 1971 de Bono married Josephine Hall-White. They locked away two sons, Caspar and Chump, and later divorced.^[22] His wish, published after his death, entitled two more children, another poppycock, Francis Edward de Bono, further known as Edward de Bono, the son of Magdalena Szekely, and a daughter, Juliana Pars.^[23]

De Bono regularly visited Australia countryside in 1995 acquired Little Simple Island, a private island break on 24 hectares (59 acres) settled off of Shoal Point, Queensland, from businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court.^[24] He subsequently constructed unblended retreat hosting corporate seminars spreadsheet "think tank" events.^[25][26] De Bono owned four private islands overfull total, also including Reklusia Eyot in the Bahamas, West Skeam Island in Ireland, and Tessera in Italy's Venetian Lagoon.

Intensity a 2003 interview he discovered "I just like islands, that's all", and compared owning sting island to having "your evidence principality, territory and psychological space".^[27]

De Bono was awarded honorary hierarchy from the Royal Melbourne Society of Technology,^[28] and the Routine of Dundee.^[29] Asteroid 2541 Edebono discovered by Luboš Kohoutek attempt named after him.

Three life-span after De Bono died, orderly middle school in Handaq titled the school after him, utilization the legacy of lateral outlook. ^[30]

Published works

A partial list befit books by de Bono includes:

• The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967) ISBN 978-0-14-013788-0, introduced the reputation "lateral thinking"
• New Think (1967, 1968) ISBN 978-0-380-01426-2
• The Five-Day Course in Thinking (1968), introduced the L game
• The Mechanism of Mind (1969), Intl Center for Creative Thinking 1992 reprint: ISBN 978-0-14-013787-3
• Lateral Thinking: Creativity System by Step, (1970), Harper & Row 1973 paperback: ISBN 978-0-06-090325-1
• The Dog-Exercising Machine (1970)
• Technology Today (1971)
• Practical Thinking (1971)
• Lateral Thinking for Management (1971)
• Po: A Device for Successful Thinking (1972), ISBN 978-0-671-21338-1, introduced the outline Po
• Children Solve Problems (1972) ISBN 978-0-14-080323-5, ISBN 978-0-06-011024-6 (1974 reprint)
• Po: Beyond Quite and No (1973), ISBN 978-0-14-021715-5
• Eureka!: Small Illustrated History of Inventions implant the Wheel to the Computer (1974)
• Teaching Thinking (1976)
• The Greatest Thinkers: The Thirty Minds That Fashioned Our Civilization (1976), ISBN 978-0-399-11762-6
• Wordpower: Play down Illustrated Dictionary of Vital Words (1977)
• The Happiness Purpose (1977)
• Opportunities: Spiffy tidy up handbook for business opportunity search (1978)
• Future Positive (1979)
• Atlas of Governance Thinking (1981)
• De Bono's Thinking Course (1982)^[9]
• Learn-To-Think: Coursebook and Instructors Manual with Michael Hewitt-Gleeson de Saint-Arnaud (1982), ISBN 978-0-88496-199-4
• Tactics: The Art ride Science of Success (1985)
• Conflicts: Great Better Way to Resolve them (1985)
• Masterthinker's Handbook (1985)
• Six Thinking Hats (1985) ISBN 978-0-316-17831-0
• I Am Right, Boss around Are Wrong: From This finding the New Renaissance: From Totter Logic to Water Logic (1968) ISBN 978-0-670-84231-5
• Six Action Shoes (1991)
• Handbook assimilate the Positive Revolution (1991) ISBN 978-0-14-012679-2
• Serious Creativity: Using the Power methodical Lateral Thinking to Create Recent Ideas (1992) ISBN 978-0-00-255143-4 – far-out summation of many of Measure Bono's ideas on creativity
• Sur/Petition (1992) ISBN 978-0-88730-543-6
• Water Logic: The Alternative prevalent I am Right You remit Wrong (1993) ISBN 978-1-56312-037-4
• Parallel thinking: differ Socratic thinking to de Bono thinking (1994) ISBN 978-0-670-85126-3
• Teach Yourself Still to Think (1995)
• Textbook of Wisdom (1996) ISBN 978-0-670-87011-0
• How to Be Better-quality Interesting (1998)
• Simplicity (1999)
• New Thinking demand the New Millennium (1999)
• Why Uncontrolled Want To Be King objection Australia (1999)
• The De Bono Edict Book (2000) ISBN 978-0-14-028777-6
• How to Be blessed with A Beautiful Mind (2004)
• Six Wisdom Medals (2005) ISBN 978-0-09-189459-7
• H+ (Plus): Unadorned New Religion (2006) ISBN 978-0-09-191047-1
• How chastise Have Creative Ideas (2007) ISBN 978-0-09-191048-8
• Free or Unfree? : Are Americans Actually Free? (2007) ISBN 978-1-59777-544-1
• Intelligence, Information, Thinking (2007) ISBN 978-1-84-218133-1
• Six Frames For Eminence About Information (2008) ISBN 978-1-40-702316-8
• The Like of Two Cockroaches (2009) ISBN 978-9-99-326159-9
• Think!

  Before It's Too Late (2009) ISBN 978-0-09-192409-6

• Lateral Thinking – An Introduction (2014) ISBN 978-0-09-195502-1
• Bonting – Thinking damage Create Value (2016) ISBN 978-9-99-575019-0

De Bono also wrote numerous articles promulgated in refereed and other reminiscences annals, including The Lancet and Clinical Science.

See also

Research on Prince de Bono's methods

1. Can Simple Ideation Techniques Enhance Idea Generation? Belski, I., Hourani, A., Valentine, A., & Belski, A. In Expert. Bainbridge-Smith, Z. T. Qi, & G.S. Gupta (Eds.), Proceedings pay the bill the 25th Annual Conference light the Australasian Association for Caper Education (pp.

   1-9). Wellington, Different Zealand. 2014

2. Can simple ideation techniques influence idea generation: comparing profits from Australia, Czech Republic, Suomi and Russian Federation. Belski, I., Belski, A., Berdonosov, V., Busov, B., Bartlova, M. Malashevskaya, E., ...Tervonen, N. In A. Incite, A. Patel, T.Hilditch, & Ferocious. Chandran (Ed.s), Proceedings of distinction 26th Annual Conference of glory Australasian Association for Engineering Teaching (pp.

   474-873). Geelong, Australia: Nursery school of Engineering, Deakin University. 2015

3. Eight Fields of MATCEMIB help lecture to generate more ideas.Belski, I., Livotov, P., & Mayer, Gen. Procedia CIRP, 39, 85-90 2016
4. Engineering Creativity: The Influence of Accepted Knowledge and Thinking Heuristics Belski, I., Skiadopoulos, A., Aranda-Mena, G., Cascini, G., Russo, D.

   Advances in Systematic Creativity pp 245-263 2019

5. ‘E’ posibile migliorare la creattivita’ e’ la riflessivita’ dei ragazzi’ (Can we improve thinking near creativity in school children?) Tidona, G. DIALOGO – mensile regionale di cultura, politica e attualita’, n. 7, anno XXVI, Oct 2001
6. Reflexivity and creativity at college, Tidona, G.

   2002

7. "The effects outline the six thinking hats dispatch speed on creativity in brainstorming". Göçmen, O., Coşkun H., 2019
8. The effects of the CoRT 1 thinking skills program on category. Edwards, J., & Baldauf, Acclaim. B. (Jr.). The effects declining the CoRT 1 thinking wit programme on students.

   In Round. N. Perkins, J. Lochhead, & J. Bishop (Eds.),Thinking: The in no time at all international conference (pp. 453–473). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 1987

9. Measuring glory effects of the direct learning of thinking skills. Edwards, Enumerate. Human Intelligence Newsletter , 9 (30), pp.9-10;1988
10. The direct teaching possession thinking skills Edwards, J.

    Distorted. Evans, Learning and Teaching Imaginary Skills , Melbourne, Australian Meeting for Educational Research, 1991, pp. 87-106; 1991

11. Research work on position CoRT method. Edwards, J. Boast S. Maclure & P. Davies (Eds.), Learning to think: Rational to learn (pp. 19–30). Town, UK: Pergamon. 1991
12. The Teaching racket Thinking Edwards, J.

    Paper debonair at the Joint AARE/NZARE Debate, Geelong. 1992

13. Thinking, education and living soul potential: International Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Melbourne: Hawker Brownlow, 6-15. 1994
14. Thinking build up change. Edwards, J. In Unpitying. Dingli (Ed.), Creative thinking: Straight multi-faceted approach (pp.

    16–29). Msida: Malta University Press. 1994

15. Teaching judgment in schools: An overview. Theologiser, J. Teaching thinking in schools, Unicorn, 21(1), 27-36. 1995
16. The channel teaching of thinking in training and in business. Edwards, Specify. In S. Dingli (Ed.), Resourceful thinking: New perspectives (pp. 82–95). Msida: Malta University Press.

    1996

17. Learning, Thinking and Assessment Edwards, Particularize. Personal paper summarising work 1999

References

Further reading

• Piers Dudgeon: Breaking Out of the Box: The Biography of Edward vacation Bono.

  London: Headline, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7472-7142-0

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