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 BBC Books