DE BONO’S
THINKING COURSE
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is considered by many to be the leading authority
in the world on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. For over
25 years he has pioneered ‘thinking about thinking’. He has
written 45 books with translations into 27 languages including
Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Bahasa, Korean and Slovene. His think-
ing lessons are widely used, with millions of pupils ranging from
those in remote South African villages to those in such leading
schools as Norfolk Academy in Virginia, USA.
His instruction in thinking has been sought by many of the
leading business corporations in the world and also by govern-
ments. He founded the International Creative Forum which has as
members the leading corporations in each field (BM, Du Pont,
Nestlé, British Airways, etc.). He has also set up the International
Creativity Office in New York to work with the UN and other
international bodies. He has been invited to lecture in 51 different
countries,
Dr de Bono was a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford and has held
appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London
and Harvard. His background is in medicine and in psychology.
He is the originator of the term ‘lateral thinking’, which is now in
the Oxford English Dictionary. He is also the inventor of the
classic L-Game, which is said to be the simplest real game ever
invented. This game was invented as the result of a challenge by
the late Professor Littlewood at Cambridge, one of the greatest
British mathematicians.DE BONO’S
THINKING COURSE
Edward de Bono
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