Appendix 1 Six Thinking Hats (Introductory page)

Edward de Bono was once chosen by a group of professors as one of the 250 people who had contributed most in the whole history of humanity. On the Internet there are so many references to his work that accessing one reference every minute would take thirty working years.

He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and has had appoint­ments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard. He has written sixty-two books with translations into thirty-seven languages and has been invited to lecture in fifty-three countries.

He is the originator of'lateral thinking', which is now part of the language, basing his work on an understanding of the brain as a self-organizing information system. He has devised powerful thinking methods and frameworks, which are used equally by senior executives in some of the world's largest corporations (including Siemens, Boeing, British Telecom and Shell) and by four-year-olds in school. He is well known for his design of' parallel thinking' and 'the six thinking hats' method. The De Bono Code Book is published in Viking and is set to be another ground-breaking work that will transform the way we communicate with one another.

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Appendix 2 Checklist for personal values

Checklist for Personal Values By C. Roberts, Fifth Dicsipline Fieldbook

This exercise is designed to help you reach a better understanding of your most significant values.

Step 1: What I Value Most... From this list of values (both work and personal), select the ten that are most important to you-as guides for how to behave, or as components of a valued way of life. Feel free to add any values of your own to this list.

Achievement	Friendships	Physical challenge
Advancement and promotion	Growth	Pleasure
Adventure	Having a family	Power and authority
Affection (love and caring)	Helping other people	Privacy
Arts	Helping society	Public service
Challenging problems	Honesty	Purity
Change and variety	Independence	Quality of what I take part in
Close relationships	Influencing others	Quality relationsihps
Community	Inner harmony	Recognition (respect from others, status)
Competence	Integrity	Religion
Competition	Intellectual status	Reputation
Cooperation	Involvement	Responsibility and accountability
Country	Job tranqulity	Security
Creativity	Knowledge	Self-respect
Decisiveness	Leadership	Serenity
Democracy	Location	Sophistication
Ecological awareness	Loyalty	Stability
Economic security	Market position	Status
Effectiveness	Meaningful work	Supervising others
Efficiency	Merit	Time freedom
Ethical practice	Money	Truth
Excellence	Nature	Wealth
Excitement	being around people who are open and honest	Wisdom
Fame	Order (tranqulity, stability, conformity)	Work under pressure
Fast living	Personal development	Work with others
Financial gain	Freedom	Working alone

Step 2: Elimination

Now that you have identified ten, imagine that you are only permitted to have five values. Which five would you give up? Cross them off.

Now imagine that you are only permitted four. Which would you give up? Cross it off.

Now cross off another, to bring our list down to three.

And another, to bring our list down to two.

Finally cross off one of your two values. Which is the one item on the lst that you care most about