Edward de Bono's Message for Today - February 9, 2010
Edward de Bono's Message for Today - February 9, 2010


The main thing about crisis thinking is the time pressure.

There is a need to do something.

Crisis thinking requires a clear assessment of what is going on - and the ability to change that assessment as things progress. There is a need for decision-making and a clear line of command. Priorities are very important because it often becomes a matter of giving up something in order to save something else. All the time there is a need to create options. There is also a need to project and to imagine what might happen next. Problem solving is involved but it usually not easy to remove the cause of the problem.

Designing a way forward may be more important.

© Edward de Bono, 1995. "Teach yourself how to think."
Published by Penguin Viking, 1995.





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