Edward de Bono - Love Laterally

Edward de Bono invented of the concept of Lateral Thinking and spent his life championing the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools, universities and businesses. He courted a global and high profile audience throughout his life, reaching out to all areas of academia, politics, commerce, media and industry. He polarised opinion like marmite. Adored by the advertising industry, misunderstood by the media, mistrusted by academia, the ultimate polymath, he could easily fit into the box of self help guru, philosopher, business writer, but de Bono was all of these things and more, and he spent his life showing people how to think for themselves and why it is imperative to never allow politicians, press or priests to do the thinking for them. He mixed on a social level with the world's most powerful men, whose lack of thinking he challenged on a daily basis, and spent his life - even in his last years - travelling the globe encouraging schools to introduce thinking classes.

With contributions from his friend the late HRH Prince Phillip, Sir Tony Blair with whom he worked on education and the Irish Peace Process, Baroness Helena Kennedy, who uses lateral thinking in her professional career and family friend artist Peter Gabriel amongst others, Sarah Tucker uncovers why lateral thinking was so important in its day and asks if it is still relevant now... and how this famously organised thinker led such a chaotic romantic life and ended up broke.