THOUGHT LEADERS
Comments from eminent thought-leaders on the School of Thinking and its work since 1979:
On teaching people how to think:
“The School of Thinking is moving in the right direction in helping our kids to become better thinkers”.
- COACH KEVIN SHEEDY, AFL Legend and 2008 Australian Thinker of the Year.
“I believe the School of Thinking’s work in teaching people how to think may be the most important thing going on in the world today!”
- PROFESSOR GEORGE GALLUP, Founder of The Gallup Poll at Princeton.
On School of Thinking lessons:
“When I first saw a School of Thinking lesson in action, I was amazed at how something so simple and so much fun could be so quick and effective in developing a person’s ‘thinking muscle’. We all, as individuals, need these thinking skills.”
PAUL B. MACCREADY JR, Inventor of the Gossamer Albatross, father of man-powered flight.
On cvs2bvs — The Universal Brain Software
“I would love to have a management team that really understood the cvs2bvs equation. It’s the ‘value-added’ role in the management process”.
- JACK WELCH, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Company
In business, Jack Welch was the most famous advocate of cvs2bvs in the US.
He used cvs2bvs at GE to help him change the culture of a 100-year-old manufacturer to the most valuable company (at the time he left it) in the history of the world!
I was invited to GE soon after he became chairman and CEO. In the 1980s I spent several years, at his request, installing the cvs2bvs brain software at GE. In his book called, Jack (Warner Books 2001), he wrote, “It would make each of us wake up with the goal of “Finding a Better Way Every Day”. It was a phrase that became a slogan, put up on the walls of GE factories and offices around the world”.
Jack also used cvs2bvs in crisis management situations and on one very serious occasion involving a national crisis between GE and Reagan’s Defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, Jack asked me to meet with him urgently, in Manhattan, to apply cvs2bvs to finding a solution. The crisis was resolved within 48 hours!
He also told me that it helped him design new concepts like ‘Boundarylessness’ and ‘Work-Out’. He wrote, “Suddenly, “Finding a Better Way Every Day” wasn’t just a slogan. It was the essence of boundaryless behaviour, and it defined our expectations”. Jack was famous for the little hand-written notes he would send to people. He sent me several and the one I prized the most was, “Michael, you are a friend of our company”.
Triathletes use cvs2bvs to get better (and ‘better’ means more clever) at swimming, cycling and running. 1998 Canadian Ironman, Shane Smith, won his medal at Penticton BC and presented it to me because he said he used cvs2bvs to plan his strategy to win it. I still have it hanging on my wall because it is the only triathlon award I’m ever likely to see.
Others use the cvs2bvs brain software to get better at relationships and parenting. Scientists use it for better researching and designing better experiments. You can use it to become better at listening, better at solving business problems, better at selling, better at creating opportunities, better at making decisions, better at handling family matters, better at dealing with personal situations, better at getting better, better at anything!
Olympic Gold medalist, Peter Vidmar, was another sports advocate of cvs2bvs. Peter is the highest scoring American gymnast in Olympic history and he was the first ever to get a perfect 10 in gymnastics and did so at the XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles in 1984. He used to say, “CVS to BVS plus ROV!”
Gymnasts, Peter explained, were rated on Risk, Originality and Virtuosity or ROV. At that time, all Olympians were presented with a beautiful full-colour, hardbound Commemorative Book by the IOC as a souvenir of their participation in the games. In appreciation, Peter presented his copy to me with the inscription, “CVS to BVS + ROV”.
cvs2bvs is the Universal Brain Software.
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Some early days Australian and American media comments supporting Dr Hewitt-Gleeson and the School of Thinking’s work to get ‘thinking skills’ taught in schools…
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- MORTON HUNT, Readers Digest, Cover Story, New York
If Dr. Hewitt-Gleeson has his way, Australian schoolchildren will have the study of ‘thinking’ as much a part of their curriculum as the traditional subjects of maths and english are now.
- PETER FITZSIMONS, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney
Australian kids will soon be taught to think for themselves.
- THE TODAY SHOW, Channel 10 TV, Sydney
Dr. Hewitt-Gleeson’s mission is to teach Australians to use their whole brains for thinking, not just the left hand side.
- THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, Perth
Count Michael Hewitt-Gleeson de Saint-Arnaud, scientist and lecturer, is an international mover and shaker.
- GQ, Cover Story, Global Style, New York
If Michael Hewitt-Gleeson has his way, Australia will become the clever country.
- DAVID SMITH, The Sun, Brisbane
He claims schools teach children what to think not how to think.
- CATHY SAWYER, Daily News, Perth
De Bono and his other mentor Gallup have obviously been influential in the development of Hewitt-Gleeson’s theories.
- TOM SKOTNICKI, The Herald, Melbourne
Now after having appeared in newspapers all over the world, having co-written a book with Dr Edward de Bono, having appeared on many television shows such as “Ray Martin” and his own show in America, this character has shown nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it.
- HANNAH RYAN, The Moorabbin Standard, Melbourne
I want this for my kid.
- RAY MARTIN, Ray Martin Show, Melbourne
Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is the leading authority on lateral thinking in the United States and is a member of Britain’s most prestigious think tank, the Centre for the Study of Thinking.
- DAVID-JOHN DOOSE, The News World, New York
It’s so simple yet it really works!
- STEVE HELLER, The Steve Heller Show, KREX Colorado
This has been one of the best interviews I have ever done
- MARK PENTRAK, Mark Pentrak Show, Pittsburgh
Gleeson is adamant about America catching up with other nations in the thinking area. Venezuela, for example, regards thinking as a legitimate skill to be taught to children.
- JOSEPH SELDNER, Rocky Mountain News, Denver
Michael Hewitt-Gleeson and the School of Thinking are aggressively marketing their ideas. Some people have dubbed them the “McDonald’s of Thinking”.
- RALPH FLETCHER, USAIR Magazine
Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, the world’s first PhD in lateral thinking, believes that as communication’s technology improves and people are taught to think for themselves, systems such as democracy, socialism and communism – where a few do the thinking for the many, who are, if anything, asked simply to vote on other people’s ideas – will be replaced by cognocracies, societies of individuals who think for themselves.
- PATRICK COX, Reason Magazine, California
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January 21st, 2011 at 3:05 am
With Determination its possible at last . Great Truth are always simple That should push us to find out…
October 15th, 2009 at 2:40 am
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