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What is Lateral Thinking?
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member
I would like members comments on Edward de Bono's statement:
"Anyone can be a lateral thinker, this does not imply they use lateral thinking....
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An Essential Approach to Evolution
Carlos Raul Magnante, Business Consultant, Italy, Member I completely agree with De Bono, and I'd like to look at the "reverse sense" of his statement. Can I assume that, whenever I act as "lateral thinke... |
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Tool for Creativity & Innovation
Jacob Andrews, Entrepreneur, United Arab Emirates, Member Lateral Thinking and Brainstorming are two management tools for creativity and innovation in modern management.
Edward De Bono’s (1990) notion of... |
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Is There Any Difference?
Francisco Quintal, Business Consultant, Mexico, Member Ali's original request was for commenting on the basic De Bono's statement:... Can a person "be" a lateral thinker and yet not using such a capacity?<... |
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Lateral Thinking from Multiple Angles
lenworth grandison, Jamaica, Member Lateral thinking would be to consider everyone's idea, from the CEO to the lowest level of employee, to achieve the objective, as this would provide t... |
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Widened Management
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Problems solving is about variation, insight and selection. Lateral Thinking is about variation in problems solving, more certainly - about widenin... |
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Many Creative Solutions
Montse Julibert You can find many good solutions for only one problem or need. It's simply using lateral thinking to find many creative solutions.... |
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Lateral Thinking according to De Bono
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member Thank you for your comments. I believe De Bono, as the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking' and the tools/processes of Lateral Thinking, is making ... |
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Consider how Children Solve Problems
Henry Velasquez, Business Consultant, Colombia, Member Really we have different ways to solve problems along our lives, but several factors stop us from enjoying problem solving, such as traditional... |
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From Lateral Thinking to Linear Thinking and Back!
Angel E. Lozari, Jr., HR Consultant, Philippines, Member Indeed when we were kids, we naturally used Lateral Thinking. No limitations, no rules, no theorems to conform to. If a=b, and b=c, then either a=c or... |
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Lateral Thinking as an Aptitude
Vijay Jassal, Entrepreneur, India, Member Dear Ali, I agree with what De Bono says, as even my experience more often has been that "Lateral Thinking is more of an aptitude than a skill". That ... |
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Lateral Thinking is Intuitive
SANDEEP KUMAR K, Project Manager, India, Member In my opinion, it is an intuitional way of thinking where we think out of the way (similar to brainstorming, but not structured) so as to gathe... |
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Lateral Thinking is NOT intuitive
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member Hi Sandeep - I think you are referring to being a 'lateral thinker' not using lateral thinking. There is nothing intuitional about using lateral th... |
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Lateral Thinking Can Be Learned
breath, Student (University), Nigeria, Member Dear Ali, when lateral thinking was introduced in 1967, it was aimed to destroy the old established ways of thinking and support creativity. De Bono c... |
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Lateral Thinkers in South Africa
Sandy Andrew, Consultant, South Africa, Member I coach marketing interns in the most exciting country in the world, where - as a result of the collapse of apartheid - a whole new way of thinking ha... |
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Born and Made
Mario Compagnoni, Investor, South Africa, Member Hi Sandy. I have been in South Africa, best country in the world, for nearly 50 years. I think creative thinking is influenced by the same two factors... |
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Conditions for Lateral Thinking
Blokland, Partner, South Africa, Member Hi Sandy and Mario, I agree with both of you! The reason why there are so many lateral thinkers / out-of-the-box approach / entreprenership in SA is ... |
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Solving Complex Problems in a Simple Manner
Bantwal Prabhu, Teacher, India, Member Lateral thinking is finding a solution to a complex problem in a simple way.
It is similar to offering radical methods, views and solutions to pr... |
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Lateral Thinking Opens our Mind
R Lozada, Management Consultant, Venezuela, Member Lateral thinking fractures the common sense, logical and structured reasoning we have learned and used to analyze and solve problems with vertical thi... |
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Lateral Thinking can be Acquired
Madan Gopal Agarwal, Business Consultant, India, Member I agree with Bono's above mentioned statement.
Also, it is a skill which can be acquired and, when applied frequently, becomes a habit ... |
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Lateral Thinking as a Systematic Approach
Eurely Jose Credidio, Consultant, Brazil, Member Lateral thinking is a way to organize our thoughts over a problem. It is a path to structure situations that our minds follows automatically. B... |
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Fear for Lateral Thinking
Anthony, Consultant, Malaysia, Member I quite agree with Ali Sumner (Australia). Anyone can be a lateral thinker but they may not be using it, or not in a deliberate, systematic ... |
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Multiple Ways to Perceive a Problem
Mohd Arshad, HR Consultant, India, Member De Bono's lateral thinking gives an idea to see the problem in multiple ways from different perspective, and enable us to find the optimal reso... |
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Lateral Thinking is Near Chaos
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Lateral thinking... Is it is disciplined thinking, or indisciplined thinking?
Both, but both are beyond limits of generally accepted. Why?... |
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My Approach
Steven Smith, Business Consultant, United States, Member I used to use circular reasoning when trying to solve a problem until I straightened out and began to think horizontally (and then laterally). ... |
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To Steven Smith
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Circular reasoning - it meant that you can't come out of circle, you can't find solution, and go rond and round. It's high time for lt. Wen solution i... |
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What is Lateral Thinking?
Tebboub Abdelamelk, Professor, Algeria, Member When we say that lateral thinking is using different ways of perception, we mean that there is no correct answer, we have to search an appropri... |
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Using Goes Beyond Thinking
Jagdish B Acharya, Consultant, India, Premium Member Bono says "Everybody can be a lateral thinker" and that is OK because one can learn how to think laterally and find new solutions.
He also says t... |
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Lateral Thinking - So Now it Has a Name!
Stephanie Douglas, Canada, Member Since I was about 14 years-old, I've questioned teachers, university professors, co-workers on why problem solving or thinking about an issue has to b... |
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Lateral Thinking - So Now it Has a Name!
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member Hi Stephanie - I've been reflecting on the statement I started this conversation with: "Anyone can be a lateral thinker but that does not imply they a... |
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Lateral Thinking is Not Always Appreciated
Benjamin Ocansey, Manager, Ghana, Member Most solutions to the world's problems and discoveries came out of lateral thinkers. But present day educators are averse to lateral thinking. ... |
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Teaching Lateral Thinking
Ivan Kohlinsky, Management Consultant, United Kingdom, Member I don't think that one can teach lateral thinking, as someone has suggested, but one can warn people about thinking in straight lines and teach tec... |
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Similarity Lateral Thinking and Real Options
I.G.Uwaifo, Student (University), Switzerland, Member Lateral thinking according to Edward De Bono, in a very simple definition means besides a known solution for a problem, there are many others. More... |
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Relationship and Patterns
Bantwal Prabhu, Teacher, India, Member Lateral thinking leads to a thought process which looks at and understands the behavior of systems through relationships and patterns in data, info... |
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Lateral Thinking and Knowledge Value Creation
Firstep Eapl Astimen, Manager, Indonesia, Member Lateral thinking is aligned with knowledge value creation from data, information, capacity to act (knowledge) and wisdom (implementation of value c... |
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Evolution versus Revolution
Mario de Obaldia Angel (15 th responder) tried to tell us the answer - but, since we are already 'infected' with adult-think, we continue to fall back int... |
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Lateral Thinking Definition
Kasthurirangan A, Business Consultant, Member Lateral thinking" is a way to think creatively to achieve the best solution towards a win win situation. All of us must remember the footwear s... |
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Lateral Thinking - Critical Thinking?
dare Akinlawon, Manager, Nigeria, Member I think lateral thinking is critical thinking! It's easier to think laterally with the mind of a child (that sees nothing as impossible) than with tha... |
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Unique Power of Mind
Muhammad Idrees Burhan Analytical mind is that part of our brain which performs the function of judgment over every input it receives. But here is a virus that very often co... |
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Linear Was Lateral
Bhagwan Singh, Teacher, India, Member In my opinion, all the inventions, discoveries or creations are the outcomes of lateral thinking approach. Yesterday's lateral thinking becomes tod... |
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On Lateral and Opposite to Lateral Thinking
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member The thought is known that any witty remark is a marriage of two concepts which before wedding even weren't familiar - extravagant mix.... |
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On Extravagant Mixes
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Any strong (original, genial) solution of a problem is an extravagant mix. Obviously, such extravagant mix - is always the fruit of lateral thinking. ... |
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Lateral Thinking - a Simple Description
Alan hopwood, Business Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Linear thinking usually provides the right answer. Linear thinking is born of our logic and experience. It is the same experience that prevents... |
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Lateral Thinking Kids
Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member A brilliant idea initiated by Dr. De Bono. Back home, in Pakistan, I've seen young kids, barely 8 - 10 years old, working as ' helper mechani... |
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On Routine Thinking
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Opposite to lateral thinking is routine thinking (thinking based on a template) – e.g. a «management methodology» or a «case study».
Routi... |
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Lateral Thinking Tools to Solve All Problems
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member Hello Konopatov S. N, in my experience using authentic lateral thinking tools for 21 years I have not had a high level of failure - I use De Bono's la... |
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Lateral Thinking is and Will Be the Exception
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Therefore lateral thinking can't replace routine thinking and become a rule. It was, is and it will be rather the exception than a rule. At the same t... |
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Lateral Thinking is Moving Across Patterns
Ali Sumner, CEO, Australia, Member If lateral thinking is an abstraction that does not exist in real life then I am wondering where this definition has come from? It has never ap... |
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Lateral Thinking Revisited!
Madan Gopal Agarwal, Business Consultant, India, Member For Ali Sumner, Konopatov S N and all others - De Bono says that there are basically two types of thinking processes - one vertical (say VT) (o... |
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It's Too Late - Think!
Mario de Obaldia In the definition employed by Ali, Dr. Bono's invention is on paper (books); it has sets of patterns to be followed (concepts, tools); ergo, it is a t... |
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Thinking Divergently
Ibrahima Diallo It is refraining to think in a single mindset, deriving to an answer rather lateral thinking is about thinking divergently to raise possible ou... |
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Lateral Thinking is Moving Across Patterns
George Pitagorsky, Consultant, United States, Member I agree with Ali Sumner. The ability to alter or simply eliminate patterns, mental models and any conditioning that inhibits creative thinking or s... |
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Lateral Thinker, But not Using Lateral Thinking?
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation, Member Whether there can be such persons who are lateral thinkers, but are not using lateral thinking?
Yes! The one who uses lateral thinking, has choi... |
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Lateral Thinking and Thinkers
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member @ Ali Sumner: I am still not clear about the difference between the thinking and thinker aspect. Secondly, how is suc... |
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