{"id":28,"date":"2008-12-17T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T08:54:36","slug":"the-de-bono-weekly-message-creativity-and-the-risk-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/the-de-bono-weekly-message-creativity-and-the-risk-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"The de Bono Weekly Message &#8211; Creativity and the Risk Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Too often people think of creativity as being concerned with new products, new services and new markets. All of these imply a risk factor. So in difficult times people tend to reduce their creative efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">It could be argued that in difficult times there is more need for creativity than at other times. There may be new situations to consider and new problems to solve. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Too often it is forgotten that one of the main outcomes of creativity is &#8216;simplification&#8217;. This may reduce costs, manpower etc. The current way of doing things may not be the best. There may even be operations which can simply be dropped. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">In my book on <a title=\"Simplicity Workshop explained\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-simplicity\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Simplicity <\/strong><\/span><\/a>I suggest dropping passport control on leaving the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">UK<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">. Three months later this was dropped. I cannot prove any connection.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"><a title=\"Who is Dr Edward de Bono?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/about-us\/edward-de-bono\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Edward de Bono<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> &#8211; is the worlds leading authority on the use of creative thinking in business.\u00a0 To learn Dr de Bono\u2019s revolutionary thinking tools, join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.indigobusiness.co.uk<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> and be trained by an officially recognised de Bono Master Trainer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often people think of creativity as being concerned with new products, new services and new markets. All of these imply a risk factor. 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