TY - BOOK AU - De Bono,Edward TI - Lateral thinking: creativity step by step T2 - Harper colophon books SN - 0060903252 (pbk.) AV - BF408 .D43 2015 U1 - 153.35 19 PY - 2015///] PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Creative thinking KW - Creativeness N1 - First Perennial Library edition published 1990. Reissued 2015; Preface -- Introduction -- Use of this book -- The way the mind works -- Difference between lateral and vertical thinking -- Attitudes towards lateral thinking -- Basic nature of lateral thinking -- The use oflateral thinking -- Techniques -- The generation of alternatives -- Challenging assumptions -- Innovation -- Suspended judgment -- Design -- Dominant ideas and crucial factors -- Fractionation -- The reversal method -- Brainstonning -- Analogies -- Choice of entry point and attention area -- Random stimulation -- Concepts/divisions/polarization -- The new word po -- Blocked by openness -- Description/problem solving/design -- Summary ER -