IES Management College And Research Centre

The wrong tackle; order out of chaos; order; the Socratic method; how the Socratic method worked; the doubters; the search; criticism and removing "untruth"; adversaries. arguments and debate; parallel thinking; problem-solving; the evolution of ideas; the search for the truth; the truth; questions; definitions, boxes, categories and generalizations; the value of boxes; the problem of "is"; the tyranny of judgement; possibility vs certainty; exploration vs judgement; design vs analysis; information vs ideas; movement vs judgement; create vs discover; inner world vs outer world; alternatives; parallels; possibilities; designing a way forward; wisdom vs cleverness; dialectic vs parallels; action vs description; value vs truth; water logic and parallel thinking; overlap; change vs stability; new language devices. Summaries: parallel thinking vs Western thinking; the failure of Western thinking.

The premise of this book is that in today's rapidly changing world the thinking of the traditional thinkers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, is no longer enough. De Bono argues that we need to move towards a more constructive, creative and design-based system of thought