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For two and a half thousand years we have followed the thinking system designed by  the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, based on analysis, judgment and argument. Is this traditional thinking sufficient today?

The old boxes are no longer adequate to cope with today's rapidly changing world. So judgment and argument can no longer solve problems or move us forward. We need to switch from judgment to design. How can we design forward from 'parallel possibilities'?

• Accept possibilities without judging and lay them down in parallel

• Accept both sides of a contradiction and lay them down in parallel

• The design forward from parallel possibilities

Edward de Bono is one of the world's leading thinkers about thinking. Parallel Thinking is not about philosophy but about the practical thinking required to get things done