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| 1948 | Starts as Undergraduate of Malta University at age fifteen. |
| 1953 | Offered Rhodes scholarship before graduation as doctor but needs to wait till attaining legal age of 21 before taking this up. |
| 1955 | Goes to Christchurch, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar to begin PPP degree. He obtains special permission to take only two of the three PPP subjects so he drops Philosophy, graduating with a BA, 2nd Class to which some express surprise. |
| 1958 | Job as Research Assistant in the Department of Regius Professor of Medicine, whilst studying for D.Phil in Medicine. An MA followed the BA. D.Phil with Sir George Pickering at the Radcliffe Hospital. |
| 1960 | Junior lecturer in Medicine at Oxford |
| 1967 | The Use of Lateral Thinking |
| 1967 | The 5 Day Course in Thinking |
| 1969 | The Mechanism of Mind. |
| 1970 | Lateral Thinking: A Textbook in Creativity. |
| 1970 | The Dog Exercising Machine. |
| 1971 | Practical Thinking and Different Ways of being Right and Wrong (Later: Practical Thinking: 4 Ways to Be Right, 5 Ways to Be Wrong, 5 Ways to Understand). |
| 1971 | Lateral Thinking for Management. |
| 1972 | Married Josephine Hall-White, two children: Caspar and Charles. |
| 1972 | PO: Beyond Yes and No. |
| 1972 | Children Solve Problems. |
| 1974 | Eureka! An Illustrated History of Invention. |
| 1976 | Teaching Thinking |
| 1976 | The Greatest Thinkers. |
| 1976 | The Edward de Bono Science Fiction Collection. |
| 1977 | Wordpower: An Illustrated Dictionary of Vital Words. |
| 1977 | The Happiness Purpose. |
| 1977 | The Case of the Disappearing Elephant. |
| 1978 | Opportunities: A Handbook of Business Opportunity Search. |
| 1979 | Future Positive. |
| 1981 | Atlas of Management Thinking. |
| 1982 | de Bono's Thinking Course. |
| 1984 | Tactics: The Art and Science of Success. |
| 1985 | Conflicts a Better Way to Resolve Them. |
| 1985 | Six Thinking Hats. |
| 1985 | Masterthinker's Handbook. |
| 1987 | Letters to Thinkers. |
| 1990 | I am Right, you are Wrong. |
| 1990 | Positive Revolution for Brazil |
| 1991 | Six Action Shoes. |
| 1992 | Sur/Petition: Going Beyond Competition (later: Sur/Petition: Creating Value Monopolies When Everyone is Merely Competing). |
| 1992 | Serious Creativity. |
| 1992 | Teach Your Child How To Think. |
| 1993 | Water Logic. |
| 1994 | Parallel Thinking: From Socratic to de Bono Thinking. |
| 1995 | Mind Pack. |
| 1995 | Teach Yourself How to Think. |
| 1996 | Edward de Bono's Textbook of Wisdom. |
| 1997 | How To Be More Interesting. |
| 1998 | Simplicity. |
| 1999 | New Thinking for the New Millennium. |
| 2000 | Super Mind Pack. |
| 2000 | The de Bono Code Book. |
| 2002 | The Y.E.A.H. TEAM. |
| 2003 | Why So Stupid? How The Human Race Has Never Really Learned How to Think. |
| 2004 | How To Have a Beautiful Mind. |
| 2005 | Six Value Medals. |
| 2006 | Kotta Koda. |
| 2007 | Free or Unfree: Are Americans Really Free. |
| 2007 | 62 Exercises to Develop the Mind. |
| 2008 | H+: A New Religion? |
| 2008 | Six Frames for Thinking about Information. |
| 2009 | Think! Before It's Too Late (Alternative original title: Before You Think Green, Think Clean!). |
| 2010 | The Love of Two Cockroaches. |
DR. EDWARD DE BONO'S CREATIVITY TOOLS
Today's environment demands innovative solutions. Dr. Edward de Bono's Creativity Tools will help you generate them. You will learn how to focus your creative energy & turn problems into opportunities. You will learn how to expand your vision & attack problems with more & better ideas to get immediate results. Take on the issues that are hurting your organization - like "the stone in your shoe" - & get rid of them.
LATERAL THINKING
Tap Into Your Creative Energy
Creativity is generating ideas Innovation is turning ideas into useful products, services & processes. Lateral Thinking is the systematic process that works the "How to". Creative Thinking is not a talent it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people, adding strength to their natural abilities, improving teamwork, productivity & profit. Think outside the box about everyday issues!
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SIX THINKING HATS
Changing The Corporate Mindset Can Be As Easy As Changing A Hat
With a simple tip of a hat, you can replace one - dimensional thinking with six dimensional thinking, from emotion to facts, positive to negative, critical to creative. When your thinking becomes more deliberate using the simple, yet powerful framework of Six Thinking Hats, you generate new ideas, improve teamwork, lead better meetings, identify alternatives, stimulate innovation, solve problems faster. This tool can dramatically change the way you think.
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POP - POWER OF PERCEPTION
Learn To "Outthink" Your Competition
There is nothing more exciting than thinking of a new idea. There is nothing more rewarding than solving a problem. There is nothing more useful than making a good decision that helps you meet your goal! Power of Perception (POP) - Ten Tools to help you plan, design, reengineer, create or restructure products & systems. Be a visionary, improve quality, become a team leader, accept new responsibility & continually improve. Using POP, your decisions will be effective in the least time. That's what your organization will call - RESULTS.
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SIX THINKING HATS ® FOR STUDENTS
Improve academic performance by teaching children critical & creative thinking skills with Six Thinking Hats. This effective communication tools teaches them to see & focus on thinking using Six modes to improve reading, writing, speaking & listening.
Students are taught to recognize each of the six modes and to come up with thinking appropriate to each colour. This enables them to think in the mode, which they consider suitable for a particular thinking situation. Such an approach helps them to overcome problems of waffle or drift, which result from the inability to identify one's thinking required for a particular situation.
CoRT THINKING
What is CoRT ?
CoRT is a 60 - lesson that teaches students of all abilities to effectively apply their intelligence to any academic, personal, or social situation. The lessons are generic enough to be taught at any grade level from Kinder garden-Adult, with minor adaptations.
What's In A CoRT Lesson? Each lesson is structured in five parts - 1 D and 4 P's:
Define the tool
Practice
Process
Principles
Project
Who Can Benefit From Using CoRT?
The ideal age for introducing CoRT may be nine or ten. But CoRT tools have been adapted on a large scale for use with students as young as six and with adults as well. CoRT is being used by some Fortune 500 corporations to teach employees how to think. Several countries have made CoRT a required part of their national school curriculum.
Success in using the CoRT tools does not depend on prior knowledge, a great memory, or reading or writing skills. Students of varying abilities benefit from CoRT, including special education students, gifted and talented students, ESL students, and at-risk youth.
SIX VALUE MEDALS™
You hear it all the time--what is our value proposition? What's our value added? What if you could count on employees to sort options using a commonly understood framework that would increase the value of the organization at every turn--for customers, employees, stockholders, the community, and more?
A Revolutionary New Framework, Book, and Course for Leaders, Teams and Individuals From Dr. Edward de Bono
The key to making decisions that will deliver maximum value lies in creating a framework that is specific enough to add meaning but is also pliable enough to expand and contract with each unique challenge.
You'll find a framework robust enough to support these efforts in Edward de Bono's new course, Six Value Medals.
The skills taught in Six Value Medals help people quickly but thoroughly scan for values, prioritize which values are the most important to pursue, and then ensure that top values are addressed and maximized every step of the way. It's like putting on a pair of glasses with six lenses, one for each of the six important value categories.
THE SIX VALUE MEDALS
Gold: Gold is a precious metal, and so are people. The gold medal asks what matters to the people? Human values include pride, achievement, a sense of belonging, hope, trust, and growth.
Silver: Silver medal impacts the organization. What matters to the organization? What are our goals as a company and how will a prospective action help us or hinder us in pursuit of these goals?
Steel: Steel must be as strong as possible. The steel medal asks what are the implications for quality? How will the decision at hand impact the quality of what we do?
Glass: Glass can take the shape of many functional, often beautiful and colorful objects. The glass medal covers change, innovation, simplicity and creativity.
Wood: Wood spotlights ecology values in the broadest sense. Is there a positive or negative impact to the environment if we take this road?
Brass: Brass looks like gold but is not. Brass medal values examine appearances and perception. How will this action be interpreted?
"It is not enough to know that values are important. We need better ways of perceiving values, talking about them and assessing them. That is the best basis for action of any sort. The Six Value Medals framework gives you the tools to do this."
- Dr. Edward de Bono
Too often, organizations cannot articulate the basis for their decisions. As a result, they may fail to notice and resolve conflicts in values that have a negative impact on employees, the organization, clients, community relationships, and more.
Until now there has not been a concrete way to assess the impact that a decision may have on our attempts to create and protect value. When employees can scan, identify, and prioritize values, they become vital partners in growing your business.
"It was very satisfying to watch the participants learn about the Six Values and apply them both to their personal lives and our work here at GMAC Insurance. The feedback from the attendees was very positive, and we are planning another class for March."
- Michael Campbell, Six Value Medals, Certified Trainer at GMAC
Edward de Bono's Six Value Medals: A Complete System for Incorporating Value into Business Solutions
SIMPLICITY
Uncomplicate Your Business & Life with Dr. Edward de Bono's Simplicity Tool
There are few things more annoying and frustrating in work than dealing with a piece of complex machinery or a cumbersome process which will not do what you need done. From complexity comes stress, anxiety and frustration - even rage - followed by apathy and exit. But you don't have to be a victim anymore. Not with de Bono Thinking Systems' Simplicity.
If your organization wishes to streamline products and processes, thereby becoming more effective, efficient and user-friendly, Dr. Edward de Bono's Simplicity will help you accomplish these goals. The Simplicity seminars teach people to end habits that are no longer necessary, stop duplication of tasks, and challenge every aspect of business so that they can perform at a higher level in all areas.
Dr. Edward de Bono's Simplicity seminars are instructor-led and include an on-going follow-up plan, where you will learn how to institute creative techniques like shedding, reframing, bulk-and-exceptions, and historical review to shift group thinking to a "challenge" mode where moving from complex to simple is the name of the game. In using these tools for simplicity, your company will benefit by:
Reducing unnecessary duplication of efforts to increase ROI
Removing age-old roadblocks and barriers, which will increase employee and customer satisfaction
Free your employees to think through new ideas more quickly, leading to faster to market innovations
Our Simplicity Seminars will bring:
Increased ROI. Increased employee and customer satisfaction. Increased innovation. Need we say more?
Start saving time, energy, and needless stress--among your customers, clients, vendors, and employees, by using our tools for simplicity.
Focus on FacilitationTM (FOF)
What if you could walk into any meeting, with any group of people and help them be more effective? Can you imagine how sought after you would be? And how productive your meetings would become?
That's what Focus on Facilitation TM is all about. This new course shows you how to combine tools from all three de Bono Thinking Systems core tools to become an expert facilitator for any kind of meeting. Get employees engaged and help them accomplish much more--before, during, and after attending the new kinds of meetings you will plan and facilitate for them.
This instructor-led workshop teaches practical tools; requires multiple, coached facilitation practices and includes many useful resources to support you in applying your new techniques.
Competencies Addressed
- Executive portfolio with room for all your facilitator visuals
- Complete facilitator handbook (we call it the facilitator's bible!)
- Exercise book to collect all the tips you get and thinking you do during the workshop
- Facilitation cards to "deal" yourself a visual map of the agenda you are planning
- Table mats that engage your meeting participants in tracking group progress
- Slide rules so participants can easily call to mind the steps in the de Bono thinking methods
- Capture cards for writing, sorting, and assessing ideas generated
- Energy dots to indicate top priority ideas and to measure buy-in on decisions made
- Catalog of colourful, practical facilitation supplies, both de Bono specific and generic
DR. EDWARD de BONO'S TOOLS TRAINER CERTIFICATION
TRAIN THE TRAINER TRACKS
A. POP (Power Of Perception)
- To Sharpen perception and problem solving skills.
- For more productive meetings, collaborative discussions, and stronger team performance.
- To make breakthrough creativity a systematic process.
- Make product and processes simple
- while working solely to your needs and priorities.
E. FOCUS ON FACILITATION
- Become a certified facilitater
F. SIX VALUE MEDALS
- Get teams to make value based decisions.
- The training can be customized to meet your specific needs.
- Your organization will benefit from the availability of internal experts in these key disciplines.
- Staff can be trained at a lower cost.
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