PO Successful Thinking DE BONO 1972 1st

PO A Device For Successful Thinking by Edward de Bono 1972 HBDJ Stated First Printing - 218 pages. Simon and Schuster. NOT an EX LIB. Jacket: GOOD. Moderate rubbing, bumping, heavy curling & creases to front flap, small edge chipping and tears. Unclipped flaps, $5.95 retail. VOL; VG. Bright blue cloth boards, bright red spine cover, white lettering. Minor soiling upper board and lower page edges, small black remainder mark on lower page edges. No markings, tears, or flaws to inner pages. Tightly bound. "Po is a word that precedes and signals a provocation. A provocation is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found. The term po was created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is, making a statement and seeing where it leads to. It is an extraction from words such as hypothesis, suppose, possible and poetry, all of which indicate forward movement and contain the syllable "po."