NOUN
- a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on
How To Use lateral thinking In A Sentence
- Some of the best ideas for products in development have come from existing chemistry and a bit of lateral thinking.
- Others include lateral thinking, straight and crooked thinking, potential problem analysis, rational decision-making, and so on.
- The answer to both your problems lies in lateral thinking. Fatal Error « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- Mr de Bono, who lives in the Channel Islands, is originator of the term lateral thinking and is widely regarded as the world's leading authority in the field of creative and conceptual thinking. National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
- I glare at the itineraries we have been given: lateral thinking until lunchtime today, then something called'How to Think'. POPCO
- I glare at the itineraries we have been given: lateral thinking until lunchtime today, then something called'How to Think'. POPCO
- They can include visualisation, lateral thinking and troubleshooting, entrepreneurship, unusual creativity, an untaught understanding of how parts fit together or how systems operate.
- Breakthroughs in decipherment seem to require broad knowledge and lateral thinking, as well as a logical, linguistically trained mind -- and this combination is more often found in "eccentrics" than in conventional scholars. Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit
- Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking. 4.
- And there I was, thinking you employed imaginative lateral thinking. A MEANS TO EVIL
