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Edward de Bono uses this book to recycle some of his earlier ideas on thinking, but he also adds emphasis in new areas like education at all levels. He is particularly critical of how "thinking" is handled at the university level -- emphasis on creative thinking -- but his words strike home for other levels of education as well. He is also critical of the media --and having spent 50 years in print journalism, I would say justly so -- for its usually superficial handing of what passes for important news. He states many times in the book that if human beings would think in a better way, many of today's social ills could be cured. You can debate his ideas, but that fundamental statement of belief is indisputable.


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Think! Before It Too Late Edward de Bono 9780091924096 Books Reviews

Think! Before it’s too late, I’m afraid left me thinking ‘Get an editor, even though it’s too late.

I have respect for De Bono and he has a knack of capturing some interesting ideas, but I’m afraid his writing style seems dedicated to either burying them or fending off readers to the point that they give up trying to identify them.
As a result I feel compelled to speak more of the failings of the book than the ideas it may contain.

The book is undoubtedly far too long. A properly edited book of 20% the length would make a much better read. Let me suggest some improvements

The current book is terminally repetitive. Sometimes De Bono acknowledges the repetition and it is used mistakenly to reinforce a point, but often the repetition seems totally unplanned. It’s as if De Bono spilled a briefcase full of draft copies on the way to the publisher, haphazardly scoped them up and this became the book. I genuinely found myself checking that page numbers had not been duplicated.

There’s a sense of De Bono’s frustration that pervades the book. There are endless references to the successes, often repeated of course, with claims of real change achieved, and yet a constant sense that he feels the ideas have not been fully appreciated and adopted.

There are interminable references to his other books, and if you’ve read those then the regurgitation of those books here must multiply the sense of repetition many fold. Indeed it’s not until page 175 that there’s the bold claim that an idea is being described here for the first time! The idea, ‘Septines’ spans just over three pages and is unremarkable, but for it then leading directly to an assault on the British Awards and Honours System which it seems has seen fit to award sports personalities, but not Mr De Bono.

Along with a sense of De Bono selling his other wares, both books and training courses, the result is far from satisfying.

This is a great shame. The final chapters do feel like a cry of help from someone who feels they have been carrying the torch of change alone for too long, despite numerous examples in the book where people appear to have adopted the ideas.

Amongst all of this I did find myself scribbling notes, particularly of some of the examples of results achieved when the described tools have been put to use. There is some good stuff in here.

If only someone could have wrested the manuscript from De Bono’s hand to wield a red pen and carve out from the draft the key points in a coherent structure, I’m sure this would be a better book and one that might be much more effective at soliciting the support that De Bono seems to be in search of.

It’s a book to get from the library rather than one worth adding to your reference collection.
Yes little disappointed the book is presented, compare what and how previously books are written. But I am a great fan of De Bono and this book will not stop me buying his other books in the future.
This book gives a good summary of all his previous one yet it contains some new stuff that I had not seen before.
Extremely good book, Some chapters you need to read and re-read.
thanks for your dealing i will deal again and again with you because it was nice to deal with you
Very typical De Bono and well worth listening to (at least twice - more is better). Although you may not feel as though any thing "specific" has been learned, this audio really stimulates thinking about how we should be thinking.
I agree with De Bono that learning to think is just as important if not more important than learning facts ie gaining information. Through learning to think and think laterally, we become more creative. In this new age of doing business it is more important to be creative than to be competitive.
This was the first book I read from de Bono and many people seem to like his earlier work.
I love the basic concepts and the mission behind the book.
But I have a problem with the price(for 12$ Ive bought both longer and more substantial books).
It's also very repetetive and I in my opinion the author praises his own achievements a bit too much. Theres nothing wrong with a few examples but here he needs to pull up million dollar figures and governement wide changes because of him.
But the thing that will make me hesistate the most on buying a new book from him I think is the repetetiveness.
I do hope I get proven wrong down the line because the potential is so good.
Edward de Bono uses this book to recycle some of his earlier ideas on thinking, but he also adds emphasis in new areas like education at all levels. He is particularly critical of how "thinking" is handled at the university level -- emphasis on creative thinking -- but his words strike home for other levels of education as well. He is also critical of the media --and having spent 50 years in print journalism, I would say justly so -- for its usually superficial handing of what passes for important news. He states many times in the book that if human beings would think in a better way, many of today's social ills could be cured. You can debate his ideas, but that fundamental statement of belief is indisputable.