Books by Edward De Bono

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★★★★ New Thinking for the New Millennium, by Edward de Bono

The author writes about his thoughts on the design process. Design is very different from problem solving since it is about value creation and possibilities. The author provides different ideas about how to innovate and produce new design. I have two gripes with this book. One is that the format of the book, while innovative, makes the content difficult to follow. The other is that the design notations from the author are copyrighted and thus limited in their use.

Tags: innovation

★★★ How You Can Be More Interesting, by Edward De Bono

A very misleading title. De Bono is the master of thinking outside the box, and here, he confuses being imaginative with being interesting. In fact, the author goes to much pains to explain that he is not talking about being a good conversationalist. My question is: why confuse the reader then? But once you understand the real purpose of the author, the book is very stimulating with a lot of mental exercises. Trying them will help you change the way you look at various events. And there are quite a lot of amusing facts that a trivia fan would love to collect.

Tags: innovation

★★★ Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono details his famous six thinking hats tactic for constructive thinking. The idea behind the technique is to create an artificial setting for thinking about the situation from different viewpoints and angles. The intention is to gain a full understaning of the problem so that an effective solution can be found. This technique can be contrasted to the usual method of each person taking their stand and trying to defend it. Several respected large companies use this technique.

Tags: innovation