BRAIN OF THE YEAR AWARD 2009
The Brain Trust is pleased to announce that Professor Edward de Bono has been elected Brain of the Year 2009. The citation reads:
Edward de Bono is regarded to be one of the leading authorities in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written 62 books with translations into 37 languages and has been invited to lecture in 54 countries. He is the originator of lateral thinking which treats creativity as the behaviour of information in a self-organising information system - such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking and parallel thinking. |
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