Lateral Thinking - Creativity Step by Step

Edward De Bono

A thorough treatment of deBono's novel concept of an alternative style of attacking problems, that is, lateral thinking vs. conventional vertical thinking.

Contents

• The Way the Mind Works
• Difference between lateral and vertical thinking
• Attitudes towards lateral thinking
• Basic nature of lateral thinking
• The use of lateral thinking
• Techniques
• The generation of alternatives
• Challenging assumptions
• Innovation
• Suspended judgment
• Design
• Dominant ideas and crucial factors
• Fractionation
• The reversal method
• Brainstorming
• Analogies
• Choice of entry point and attention area
• Random stimulation
• Concepts/divisions/polarisation
• The new word PO
• Blocked by openness
• Description/problem solving/design