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- Cracking the Colour Code
- A joke extracted from a talk by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s partner: Then there was the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- De Bono: Four Ways to Kick-Start Creative Thinking
- Dr Edward De Bono was in London this week to promote his new book and extol the virtues of creative thinking. The celebrated pioneer of lateral thinking thought his works are now compulsory reading in Argentina and India has just published this latest...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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- DigiScents Wins Edward De Bono Medal
- DigiScents, Inc. (www.digiscents.com), the pioneer of digital scent technology, won the Edward de Bono Award for the most practical and effective new idea of the year. The award was given as part of the Saatchi and Saatchi Innovation in Communication Award 2000, a global competition that recognizes innovations that have...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- Developing New Ways of Thinking
- Over the years we tend to develop thinking styles that become ingrained. People who say, "I'm not creative" or "I'm not really a thinker" simply have not been made aware of, or adopted, thinking patterns different from their own. We are all capable of breaking old habits, and this checklist...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Taking Different Approaches to a Problem
- We are under such time pressures at work that we tend to solve problems based on what has worked in the past. This approach precludes us from finding new and effective solutions. Instead, we look for "quick fixes." Considering a problem from different perspectives helps us solve...
- Articles 2007-12-03
- Italian rivals fail to break Savoldelli in Tour de Romandie
- GENEVA AFP — Italian rider Matteo Bono won the third stage of the Tour de Romandie on Friday, but his breakaway group narrowly failed to deprive Paolo Savoldelli of the yellow jersey after they squandered a 19 minute lead. The experienced Savoldelli held on to his overall lead by...
- Research articles 2007-05-04
- Crane's creative thought
- ALWAYS KEEN TO IMPROVE HIS managerial qualities, ABN Amro chief executive Steve Crane was seen listening attentively to the world's leading authority on creative and conceptual thinking, Dr Edward de Bono at a luncheon recently. de Bono challenged Australia's CEOs to "adopt new ways of thinking" at a function...
- Research articles 2001-06-27
- WebAdvantage.net Pro-Bono Online Advertising Buy Dramatically Impacts IFAW "Save the Whale" Efforts
- HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. -- WebAdvantage.net, (http://www.webadvantage.net), a results-centric, process-driven strategic search marketing and online advertising agency, today announced the success of its recent pro-bono efforts. WebAdvantage.net President Hollis Thomases reported that the agency donated its time and efforts to negotiate and place online ads for the International Fund for...
- Research articles 2007-09-11
- Building Your Creativity
- We all have creative talent, but many of us lack confidence in our own creativity. “I’m not very creative” is a common lament, even from people who manage their careers well and succeed in bringing real value to the businesses where they work. In fact, developing a more efficient approach...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Dealing with Failure
- Thomas Edison (1847–1931) is credited with the invention of the phonograph and the electric light bulb. When asked about his numerous experimental failures, he said: "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I...
- Articles 2007-11-08
- Harnessing Your Team's Creativity
- Everyone has a creative spark, but many factors can inhibit its ignition. Part of a manager's role is to see the spark in his/her people, encourage its ignition, and then champion its success. In some cases, however, a manager's dampened spirit makes it impossible to recognize creativity in team members....
- Articles 2008-03-31
- Help! I've Lost My Focus
- Can you believe it --- we're halfway through July already! Do you feel the days fly by? Do you get caught up in day-to-day stuff that is often urgent but not that important or particularly innovative? Anyone who's read Stephen Covey's books will be familiar with the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- The Cult of Six Sigma |BTalk Australia
- (24min 37) Six Sigma is a business improvement pioneered by Motorola, embraced by General Electric and now used by many large corporations throughout the world. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Skinner, a six sigma "black belt" from the Faculty of Business at the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- [2] Gomez Advisors Analyst to Interview On RadioWallStreet Internet Broadcast
- Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers PHILADELPHIA--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 21, 1999 United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), FDX Corporation (NYSE: FDX), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and eToys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETYS) will be discussed by Gomez Advisors Senior Analyst, Martin De Bono, on RadioWallStreet Tuesday, December 21, 1999 at 3:45 PM EST, Investor...
- Research articles 1999-12-21
- The Best Business Books to Start With
- Nobody ever gave me a list of books to read when I started working. But 800CEORead has a First Five Books list (really, six books). The list wasassembled with the idea that good stories, based on real world experience, and context are the most important things for...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- To Do or Not to Do? That is the Question
- Got heaps of ideas but not sure how to evaluate them? Worried an idea will go bad once implemented? Most of us run with ideas without thinking them through in a deliberate manner or without applying the right tools. Our thinking toolkit can be...
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Can't Innovate? Borrow
- If you can't create, borrow someone else's ideas, advises David Kord Murray in his book, "Borrowing Brilliance". Borrowing other's ideas is common to most creative thinkers, as Murray points out. Everyone, from Albert Einstein to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs "stood on the shoulders...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Hacienda provocó la insurrección burócrata.(México)(TT: The Treasury Department caused the bureaucrat insurrection.)(TA: Mexico)(Entrevista)
- Zedillo estaba advertido: Joel Ayala En su obsesión de no moverle el escenario económico a la administración de Vicente Fox, entregarle cuentas claras y no heredarle problemas que le "vayan a complicar la vida innecesariamente", como dijo el secretario de Hacienda José ...
- Research articles 2000-11-05
- Billionaire hosts ‘Cirque du Space' from orbit
- LOS ANGELES - Wearing a red clown nose, the Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil hosted an out-of-this-world performance event on Friday, saying he wanted to use his trip as a space tourist to highlight the scarcity of water on Earth. Guy Laliberte's two-hour performance event, called "Moving Stars and...
- News items 2009-10-10
- Education
- California State University Channel Islands has appointed Mario J. "Marty" de los Cobos its director of community relations. De los Cobos previously served as vice president of public affairs and development for the Ventura County Community Foundation. Cal State Northridge business law professor Bruce Zucker was honored recently...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
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