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Summary: A start for continous improvement
Review: "Do not limit your mind, don't assume" could be a brief summary of the book. The author has made quite a good start, explanining how new ideas could be formed and how the best looking idea may not be the best to pick up. The book would be useful for people who have been in a stable environment, a place where improvements are seen as threats so you couldn't improve most of the things. The negative side was, that there were to many repeats of the same idea through out the chapter and the book. That was a bit boring. The "PO" word is a good idea, but doesn't need that much explanation. I would recommend it for starters in continuous improvement concept.
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Summary: A classic!
Review: De Bono's work in Lateral Thinking is one of the seminal works on creativity. He shows readers how this classical concept can be applied to creative problem solving. I am the author of Aha! - 10 Ways To Free Your Creative Thinking and Find your Great Ideas, and have included "Lateral Thinking," in the bibliography as required reading for anyone interested in learning how to tap their creativity. De Bono is a leading thinker in the field of the mind and creativity, and I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A classic!
Review: De Bono's work in Lateral Thinking is one of the seminal works on creativity. He shows readers how this classical concept can be applied to creative problem solving. I am the author of Aha! - 10 Ways To Free Your Creative Thinking and Find your Great Ideas, and have included "Lateral Thinking," in the bibliography as required reading for anyone interested in learning how to tap their creativity. De Bono is a leading thinker in the field of the mind and creativity, and I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A mental swiss-army knife
Review: I found the book quite useful and rich in cognitive know-how. Reflection on De Bono's arguments makes me always feel like a person who is being forewarned and consequently forearmed against the deadlocks hidden in too much systemic thought. After reading such books as De Bono's you resurface into reality with a brand-new intellectual equipment and you find that the heavy logical axe you had before has changed into a much more useful and effective mental swiss-army knife, which in addition has the formidable advantage of easy and secretive portability.
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Summary: A start for continous improvement
Review: I have read several of Edward de Bono's books in recent years and I enjoy his theories. Which is why I recently dished out a lot of monet for the Why So Stupid book that is supposedly his magnum opus and is available only by direct mail. And after reading it, I will report that most of what is there for a very high price is also in this book and in de Bono's Thinking Course, which can be had for around 4% of that cost -- if that isn't worth a 5-star rating, what is? The more expensive book does illustrate a more evolved form of de Bono's theories, and they are applied in more situations (including many that are relevant to the world today). But my advice is to by this book or the Thinking Course -- both are excellent primers on de Bono's excellent ideas.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I'm the author of "Thinkertoys" and "Cracking Creativityy." This book is a classic. Everyone interested in creative thinking should buy it and read it.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I'm the author of "Thinkertoys" and "Cracking Creativityy." This book is a classic. Everyone interested in creative thinking should buy it and read it.
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Summary: A good book.
Review: This book helped me to know how we can use our thinking in more efficient ways. I have used technics that were introduced in this book and they worked very well, my B.S. thesis in Software engineering was based on this book. I Design a Web based Instructor software that teach the students Lateral thinking technics and Practical Thinkings. I used those technics during Analysis & Design of my Software and I developed those technics in my career. Lateral thinking is wonderful book that when everybody uses its technics, s/he will find great improvements in his/her life and career.
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Summary: Found on the way to another title
Review: This book magically appeared in my hands. I asked the librarian for a book called Creating Minds and he didn't have that one, but said this one had the same code, would I like to look at it? I took it,looked and was hooked. This book describes how my mind works, and how other people can consider my methods as futile and useless, except of course when they think I'm brilliant! Prior to this the closest descriptions I found were ADD, right-brained, creative, or just plain depressed. I hope to talk to the author soon and find out where this method of thinking is valued so I can go there!
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Summary: Interesting Subject and Approach
Review: This book was recommended to me because I was impressed with Ackoff's "The Art of Problem Solving." Enduring all 300 pages of this poorly written, repetitious work is proof that just because the subject matter is interesting, any given coverage of it will not necessarily be so. The book does have some merit and a few original ideas. That's part of the reason it has endured. The other reason is that the author, being so prolific, has kept himself current. Last but not least, the field of "creativity in thought" has so few good, logical authors with descriptive talent.
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