Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
EDWARD DE BONOLateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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