Parallel Thinking
From Socratic to de Bono
Thinking
For two and a half thousand
years we have followed the; thinking system designed by the Greek philosophers Socrates,
Plato and Aristotle, based on analysis, judgement and argument. Is this traditional
thinking sufficient today?
The old boxes are no longer
adequate to cope with ^today's rapidly changing world. So judgement and argument can no
longer solve problems or move us forward. We need to switch from judgement to design. How
can we design forward from parallel possibilities?
Accept possibilities without
judging and lay them down in parallel
Accept both sides of a
contradiction and lay them down in parallel
Then design forward from
parallel possibilities
Edward de Bono is one of the
world's leading thinkers about thinking. Parallel Thinking is not about philosophy but
about the practical thinking required to get things done.
228 pages