Lateral thinking

Many problems require different

perspective to solve successfully

Edward de Bono

Four critical factors associated with
lateral thinking:


1.recognize dominant ideas that polarize
the perception of a problem
2.search for different ways of looking at things
3.relaxation of rigid control of thinking
4.use of chance to encourage other ideas

When in a situation when your
shoes are not quite clean, put
your sock on your hand and
apply a bit of spit and polish to
shoe with sock
Prior to the strategic planning process,
it is useful to enable creative
and lateral thinking

Exercises are for fun, but also help people
expand their disciplinary boundaries

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Puzzles
There are six eggs in
the basket. Six
people each take one
egg, how can it be
that one egg is left in
the basket?
Three of the glasses are filled with cool drink;
the other three are empty. By moving only one
glass, can you arrange them so the full and
empty glasses alternate
What starts with an E, ends
with an E and usually contains
only one letter?
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ENVELOPE
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What belongs to you but other
people use it more than you?
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YOUR
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In which sports do winners move
backwards and losers move
forward
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TUG OF WAR
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What common word has 4 vowels,
one after and the other
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QUEUE
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Can you name three consecutive days
without using the words Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
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What has roads but no cars, rivers
but no water and hills but no trees
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MAP
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The school inspection

A schoolteacher knew that the school superintendent
would visit the next day.
The superintendent would ask questions such as spellings
or mental arithmetic of the class, and the teacher would
choose a pupil to answer.
The teacher wanted to give the best impression of the
school.
What instructions did she give the children, in order to
create the best impression and maximise the chances that
the right answer was given to each question?
Teacher instructed the students to
raise hand for every question but
with one condition i.e.
those students who know right
answer will raise their right hands
and
those students who do not know
the answer will raise their left
hands
Remove 2 matchsticks from this figure to
make 2 squares remain
Answer:
A black man dressed all in black, wearing a
black mask, stands at a crossroads in a
totally black-painted town. All of the
streetlights in town are broken. There is no
moon. A black-painted car without
headlights drives straight toward him, but
turns in time and doesn't hit him.
Answer: It's broad daylight.
Manhole Covers
Why is it better to have round manhole
covers than square ones?
Side is smaller than diagonal of square
cover.
It means, there is a chance that the cover
may fall inside.
So round cover is better
Make the line smaller without
erasing it
Draw another line larger than the existing
one adjutant to it.
Now the first line is smaller
Two persons are sitting with a table in
between them but they can not see each
other.
Why?
They are sitting in the opposite direction
and not facing each other
Which word if
pronounced right, is
wrong, and if
pronounced wrong is
right?

*Wrong*
What belongs to you but
other people use it more
than you?

*Your name*
What happens in the
middle of month, in all of
the seasons except
summer and happens
only in the night, never
in the day?

*The letter n*
This is an unusual paragraph. I
am curious how quickly you will
find out what is so unusual about
it? It looks so plain you would
think nothing was wrong with it! It
is unusual though. Study it and
think about it, but you still may
not find anything odd. If you work
at it a bit, you might find out!

*Contains no letter E*
A murderer is condemned to
death. He has to choose
between three rooms. The first is
full of raging fires, the second is
full of assassins with loaded
guns and the third is full of lions
that havent eaten in three years.
Which room is safest for him?

*The third. Lions that havent
eaten in three years are
dead.*
You are running a race.
You overtake the second
person, what position
are you in?

*Second*
Take 1000 and add 40 to
it. Now add another
1000. Now add 30. Add
another 1000. Now add
20. Now add another
1000. Now add 10. What
is the total?

*4100*
Puzzle
The Last Three: Each letter below
stands for the name of something.
What should the last three letters
be?
M V E M J S ? ? ?


Answer:

U for Uranus, N for Neptune, and
P for Pluto
. Another Riddle
What is it that the man who makes it does not
need; the man who buys it does not use
himself, and the person who uses it does so
without knowing?

coffin.
. Day by Day
Some months have 30 days; others have 31.
How many months have 28 days?
. Day by Day
Some months have 30 days; others have 31.
How many months have 28 days?

All the months have 28 days.
. The Fishermens Riddle
An old riddle tells the tale of two fishermen
who returned one day and made the following
statement: The ones we caught we threw
away. The ones we could not catch we kept.
What did they mean?
Answer:

The two fishermen were talking
about their fleas!
. Guess Who? Puzzle
Which famous person is spelled out above?
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. Guess Who? Puzzle
Which famous person is spelled out above?
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