EDWARD DE BONO CREATIVE TEAM^TM

BENEFITS

If you scan the pages of this website you will read of many benefits that are ascribed to Edward de Bono's thinking methods. Can you accept that Edward de Bono's ambition to create a team of some 5,000,000 creative and positive thinkers is feasible and practical? Can you accept that this creative team can have a positive influence on the world in which we live? Edward de Bono believes it and his experience over the last thirty years of travelling round the world teaching in schools and many leading corporations and consulting to governments has convinced him of the desperate need for such a team. There are at present possibly far more than 5,000,000 people using his thinking methods in the world - it is now time to consolidate this power which has become feasible through the use of the Internet.

In his message of 1st December 1996 Edward de Bono summarised the benefits as follows:

1.  The challenge and enjoyment of using creative skills and the improvement of such skills through periodic instruction.

2.  A collective mechanism through which individuals can seek to contribute to make the world a better place. The aggregation of such a creative force will be much more powerful than any lone effort.

3.  The possibility of supplementing an income through earning possibilities.

Members of the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM will be able to add to these benefits as it affects them.

Other Benefits

1.  An opportunity to be part of an International brotherhood of creative thinkers.

2.  A platform to put forward creative ideas - subject to selection.

3.  An opportunity to practice and develop creative thinking skills.

4.  An opportunity to develop creative thinking as a hobby skill.

5.  An exposure to a multitude of new ideas.

6.  An opportunity to contribute to making the world a better place.

7.  An opportunity for ideas to be more widely disseminated than through a lone effort. The collective force of the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM as the premier world resource for new thinking will grow.

8.  Being part of a unique historical attempt to harness creative, constructive and design thinking.

9.  A sense of challenge and a sense of achievement.

10. An opportunity to develop contacts and colleagues.

Possible Revenue Benefits

1.  Where 'commercial' tasks are presented to the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM the originator or originators of the successful idea(s) will receive the full success fee.

2.  Where a 'commercial' task is introduced to the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM then the person introducing this task will earn a commission on the service fee. The service fee may range from $1,000 to $20,000. The commission will be calculated as 50% of the service fee for Professional Level Members and pro rata according to subscription levels for other members. So an Associate Member with a $250 subscription will get 25% of the 50% - or a 12.5% commission.

3.  A Professional or Associate Member who wishes to set up a sub-team of the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM may charge members of that team for subscriptions and for additional services provided that each member of the sub-team has been registered with the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM. The Professional or Associate Member will have paid a subscription of $250 for the right to set up a sub-team of up to 25 current members.

4.  Assessors may be selected from amongst the members of the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM. Assessors may be remunerated for their assessment work.

5.  There can often be a high commercial value in having an idea assessed. On payment of a fee such an assessment service may become part of the activities of the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM. The fee will vary with the complexity of the assessment.

6.  Where an idea is endorsed by a body such as the Edward de Bono Creative Team^TM more people are likely to consider that idea than otherwise. A fee will be charged for such an endorsement service. The fee will be reduced by 50% for Professional Members and pro rata for other subscription levels. Thus an Associate Member will have the fee reduced by 12.5%.

7.  Where ideas collected by the Edward de Bono Creative TeamTM are published in books which are sold commercially all royalties from the book sales will be distributed equally amongst the contributors. Where such books are published directly the royalties will be at normal commercial rates.

8.  Where a member has demonstrated outstanding creative ability that member may receive a personal endorsement which will have a direct commercial value to a consultant. A fee may be charged for such an assessment and endorsement.