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Need Quotes by Edward de Bono
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
- Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
- We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
- Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
- Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor…
- As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer…
- We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of…
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