Thinking - Ability to Revolve

Continuing with the ‘Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild’ theme, how can organizations RETHINK their strategy and plans post recession? In the past several months, most of the thinking inside board rooms and at the shop floor have revolved around how to overcome the constraints - to a larger or less degree – imposed upon them by the dark looming clouds of the economic crisis. Now that the proverbial silver lining is peeping out little by little and indeed warming our hearts and wallets/purses – our Finance Minister seems to agree in his recent Budget speech - it’s time to re-focus our thinking on new visions, new ideas, new possibilities that would deliver results and rejuvenate the workplace, albeit in the new growth paradigm that is emerging today. 

But then, Edward De Bono, philosopher, author and ‘thinker’, credited as the man who invented lateral thinking, announced recently that the way people have been thinking over the past 2400 years is wrong and offers exactly 23 reasons why he believes world thinking is so poor. Why else do we see so much human conflicts and disruptions to nature? So, it bears out that recession is not the only influencer of our thinking lately…our conditioning goes much far beyond in time than we’d have imagined.

Over centuries, the human mind has been trained to think logically, in terms of what is right and wrong. Therefore the brain is excellent at forming patterns and establishing paths. But, how often does it move across these set paths? That’s where lateral thinking comes in…our ability to think ‘solution’, ‘value’, ‘new possibilities’.  Lateral thinking, when complemented with conventional thinking, can provide the much-needed fillip to organizations that seek to rethink their strategy and plan to emerge victorious post recession.

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