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Lateral thinking
Four critical factors associated with lateral thinking:
1. recognize dominant ideas that polarize the perception of a problem 2. search for different ways of looking at things 3. relaxation of rigid control of thinking 4. use of chance to encourage other ideas
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When in a situation when your shoes are not quite clean, put your sock on your hand and apply a bit of spit and polish to shoe with sock.
Michael Conolly & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1999
Prior to the strategic planning process, it is useful to enable creative and lateral thinking
Exercises are for fun, but also help people expand their disciplinary boundaries
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Word Expansion
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Exercise
How many squares can you see in this figure?
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Sweet_____
Femi ______ ______mander
Catter ____llar
Heavyw ____
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