Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In "Six Thinking Hats", Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time. The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly. These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact. They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity.
Each day we are pushed around by external forces - from the economy to the people we live and work with - and by reactions to these that come from ancient reptile/mammal/primate/caveman circuits inside our own brains. But now, with the power of modern neuroscience, we can take charge of the brain and gradually change it for the better. That's the promise of Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time - which shows you down-to-earth ways to build up a "buddha brain" for... More info
*Thinking is the most important thing that you will ever do. And you have to do it every day. If thinking were natural and easy we should all be geniuses. * Considering how important thinking is - for problem solving, making decisions, making plans, responding to situations and generally coping - we pay very little attention to it as a skill. Yet it is a skill, just like skiing and carpentry. We can get better at it if we want to. Learning to ride a bicycle may be awkward and artificial at first,... More info
An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities A common way of solving problems-at home, at work, in our communities, in national and international affairs-is to use our expertise and authority to apply piece-by-piece, tried-and-true "best practices." This can work for simple, familiar problems. But it may not work for the complex, unfamiliar, conflictual problems that we increasingly face. When we try to solve these problems using traditional approaches, the problems end up either getting stuck or getting unstuck only by force. We need to learn another way. Adam Kahane... More info