New Thinking For the New Millennium - Hardcover

De Bono, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067088846X ISBN 13: 9780670888467

Publisher: Viking, 1999

Synopsis

The last millennium has not been a great success. We have advanced in science and technology, but not much in human behaviour. Is it possible that this has been due to poor thinking? Edward de Bono maintains that the thinking of the last millennium has been concerned with WHAT IS. This is the thinking of analysis, criticism and argument. What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with WHAT CAN BE. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems by planning a way forward. The emphasis of his proposed new thinking is on design and not judgement.

About this title

Synopsis:

This text argues that the scientific and technological advances of the last millennium have not been matched by advances in the way we think. The author believes that the emphasis in thinking on what is needs to be changed to what can be if we are to resolve the conflicts of the past. The manual is also an introduction to a very comprehensive coding system which enables us to communicate in a higher order language. Perceptions formed in the past at a stage of relative ignorance are frozen into language and force us to see the world in an obsolete way: this new language allows the creation and use of novel and complex concepts.

About the Author:

Edward de Bono's backlist titles include bestsellers such as: TEXTBOOK OF WISOM, TEACH YOURSELF TO THINK, SIX THINKING HATS, HOW TO BE MORE INTERESTING and most recently, SIMPLICITY. He lives in London, W1.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 067088846X
• ISBN 13: 9780670888467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304