Thinking!

The 14th International Thinking Conference held in June 2009 in KL Malaysia was a Laksa. Great ingredients, diverse blend of tastes and layers of long lasting flavor. An honor to present at it and learn from it. Memorable paraphrased lines include:

Try crossing the street in Kuala Lumpur and see what kinds of smarts you use. Howard Gardner
It's never too late to nurture the good worker with the ENA triple helix of Excellence, Engagement and Ethics HG
Good thinking includes identifying assumptions and looking for invalid ones - A Constraints Theory Approach
No-one anywhere really knows what the hell is going on, we're all just making it up as we go along. My mate Colin James
Dr John Edwards reminding us of Daniel Kim's Systems Thinking work - move up from Events & Patterns of Behavior towards Systems, Mental Models and Vision.
Develop Flexpertise. Experts have specialised understanding within a field. Flexpertise is to understand the applications in a wide scope beyond the field. The wonderful David Perkins
Re-think thinking, re-word words. Dr Shameen Rafik-Galea
Trigger + Thought = Emotion + Action = Consequence. Dr Tom Mulholland
Seek novelty in the mundane. Andrew Lees.

And to Tony Buzan, Edward de Bono, Lane Clarke, Karen Boyes, Kevin Warwick, Reg Polson, the Malaysia 1 Team, Dave Koutsoukis, Dr Yvonne Sum, Dr Neil Carrington and the 990 others who presented or participated - magic.