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MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 1st August 2005 From Papua New Guinea to Washington!
I was giving a seminar in Auckland, N.Z., a short while ago. A woman came up from the audience (I have lost her card) and told me she had been teaching my Six Thinking Hats method in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. This is usually regarded as the least developed part of the country and even said to be 'stone age' in some respects.
She told me that the audience appreciated the system so much that they said: "It had changed their lives".
Once a year in Venice there is a meeting of Nobel Prize Economists (organised by Promo Studio). At the last meeting a Nobel Prize economist told me that the week before he had been at a top meeting in Washington - and they had been using the Six Hats.
The spread from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to the top economics meeting in Washington is huge.
Methods that are simple and effective have a powerful approach.
Why does it take so long for people to realize that our traditional thinking methods are not good enough?
Edward de Bono |