Dr. Edward de Bono
			Dr. Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading international authority on creative thinking and on the direct teaching of thinking skills. He has written over 56 books with translations into more than 35 languages. He has worked steadily in major corporations and governments in over 50 countries during the past 30 years, thus building up a vast amount of practical experience in the direct teaching of thinking methods. He has taught thinking to corporate executives, four-year-olds, and Nobel Prize laureates alike. Dr. de Bono's background is in medicine and psychology. He was a Rhodes scholar and has held faculty appointments at the
	universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Harvard. His medical background in biological information systems inspired and enabled him not only to teach thinking but also to design thinking methods. In his book The Mechanism of Mind (Viking Penguin, 1969), Dr. de Bono first described how the nerve networks in the brain behave as a self-organizing system. It is from this serous base that Dr. de Bono has designed his methodologies and tools for thinking. He is the inventor of lateral thinking and the operative word "po." He is the designer of the CoRT Thinking Program for schools, which is the most widely used program internationally for the direct teaching of thinking as a curriculum subject. Dr. de Bono has worked with IBM, Shell, Siemens, DEC, Motorola, M&M Mars, Hoechst-Celanese, Citicorp, Ericsson, Total, Monte-Edison, Ciba-Geigy, and Kuwait Oil Company, to name a few. de Bono Courses The Knowledge Group offers three courses created by Dr. de Bono. Select one of the titles below to find out more about these courses. Six Thinking Hats Lateral Thinking DATT (Direct Attention Thinking Tools Books If you are interested in Dr. de Bono's books or books by other authors on thinking, creativity, or innovation explore our suggested reading lists. Dr. de Bono Thinking Creativity Innovation