Edward de Bono—the inventor of ‘lateral thinking’—died recently. I interviewed him a number of times on my radio show (he was a frequent visitor to these shores), and I once had him lead open line callers through a ‘lateral thinking’ game to solve their problems. Among his many achievements de Bono is one of the very few of our contemporaries to coin a phrase that made it into the Oxford English Dictionary.
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