Do it immediately if not sooner.

Psychologist, Physician, Author, Inventor and Consultant                          

Selected Works:

The Use of Lateral Thinking - 1967 introduced the term "Lateral Thinking".
New Think -1967, 1968

The Five-Day Course in Thinking - 1968 - Introduced the L game
The Mechanism of the Mind - 1969 - Intl Center for Creative Thinking 1992 reprint - suggests that the mind is a pattern matching machine

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step - 1970, 1973 
The Dog-Exercising Machine - 1970
Technology Today - 1971
Practical Thinking - 1971
Lateral Thinking for Management - 1971
Po: A Device for Successful Thinking - 1972 - Introduced the term Po
Children Solve Problems - 1972
Po: Beyond Yes and No - 1973
Eureka!: An Illustrated History of Inventions from the Wheel to the Computer - 1974
Teaching Thinking - 1976
The Greatest Thinkers: The Thirty Minds That Shaped Our Civilization - 1976
Wordpower - 1977
The Happiness Purpose - 1977
Opportunities : A handbook for business opportunity search - 1978
Future Positive - 1979
Atlas of Management Thinking - 1981
De Bono's Course in Thinking - 1982
Learn-To-Think: Coursebook and Instructors Manual - 1982, 
Tactics: The Art and Science of Success - 1985
Conflicts - 1985
Masterthinker's Handbook - 1985
Six Thinking Hats - 1985
I Am Right, You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic - 1990
Six Action Shoes - 1991
Handbook for the Positive Revolution - 1991
Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas - 1992 - a summation of many of De Bono's ideas on creativity
Sur/Petition - 1992 - creating value monopolies when everyone else is merely competing.

Teach Yourself How to Think - 1995
How to Be More Interesting - 1998
Simplicity - 1999
Thinking in the New Millennium - 1999
Why I Want To Be King of Australia - 1999
How to Have A Beautiful Mind - 2004
Six Value Medals - 2005
H+ - Plus: A New Religion - 2006
How to Have Creative Ideas - 2007
Free or Unfree? : Are Americans Really Free? - 2007
Six Frames For Thinking About Information - 2008

Edward De Bono has also written numerous articles published in refereed and other journals, including The Lancet and Clinical Science.                          

Has written 82 books with translations into 41 languages.
University of Malta - Medical Degree
Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford M.A. degree in Psychology and Physiology.
Cambridge University,   Ph.D. degree and a D.Phil. degree in Medicine.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology D.Des. degree - Doctor of Design

University of Dundee  LL.D.

Professorships at the Universities of Malta, Pretoria, Dublin City University, and the University of Central England.

The New University of Advancing Technology in Phoenix AZ appointed Dr. de Bono, Da Vinci Professor of Thinking in May 2005.
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