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Dr Edward de Bono's Thinking Training!

 

Dennis Perrin: The Leading INDEPENDENT Authorised UK exponent of de Bono Thinking Skills

This site originally created by Dennis Perrin in 2000, photos above training international managers from Du Pont, and top left, official UK de Bono Trainer in Lateral Thinking, PoP (Power of Perception) and The Six Thinking Hats, is now updated and will continue to be updated on a regular basis.

Question: Why would an independent De Bono trainer be better for you than the largest de Bono Training company in the world?

Answer: Because there are no ties to a company philosophy or biased control by top down management.

If Thinking is Important to You, then please read on!

How is it that some of the best educated people (PhDs, university lecturers and professors, senior business executives etc.) are also poor thinkers? Ground-breaking bespoke de Bono Thinking Tools can make revolutionary changes in the creative infrastructure of any organisation. Is there an infrastructure for creativity in your organisation? Could it be that knowledge and intellect are simply insufficient in today's competitive world? An acquaintance of mine recently mentioned that he had been responsible for training (in "new thinking") to 200+ PhDs and found them to be difficult because they were convinced that they already knew everything.

"Dennis, I got more ideas in five minutes than in the previous six months thinking about that business problem." Darren Smith, Making Meetings Matter, Oxford, 2004

The mind acts to create patterns, to recognise patterns, and to use patterns, but not to change them. By developing the extra skills of Lateral Thinking, Parallel Thinking etc., we increase our chances of having new and productive ideas. Our entire historic repertoire of established tools of thinking, handed down from Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, work to establish patterns but not to change them.

To be Mentally Optimal we need our orthodox thinking but we also need Lateral Thinking and Parallel Thinking

• We are not offering a new magic formula but a more creative way of using the mind.
• How do we develop the nature of a creative form of thinking? This is what de Bono Training is all about.