TECHNOCRATS - The MBA's who have become intellectuals of administration and management (and about everything else)-have discovered new applications for Edward de Bono's lateral thinking, which, in plain language is creative thinking. The most distinguished apostle, to my mind, is everybody's favorite Metro Manila governor.
Lateral thinking words something like this. Suppose, de Bono asks, you want to look at road congestion in a new way? Motorist tend to crowd the main streets in order to avoid bumpy, potholed side streets. Why not think of square wheels? Square wheels will give cars a bumpy ride no matter what street is taken. Viola! There will be no congestion in the main streets.
Of course, de Bono does not mean this literally. He merely chooses an extreme example. His point is not so crazy as square wheels. When you are digging oil or water in one place with no results, you dig another hole someplace else, to go on digging in the same spot is vertical thinking; looking for another spot in which to dig is lateral thinking.
Fine. Thus for the technocrats, the application of lateral thinking is simple enough. If you can't solve the problem - say garbage - just say that it is not the problem but the manifestation of another problem. You solve this problem instead of manifestation. And so it was that everybody's favorite governor pronounced that the proliferation of garbage is not a sign of dirtiness or inefficiency on the part of the government but of wealth: Metro Manilans have grown so rich they throw so many things away. The Metro Manila Authority, in sum, just cannot keep up the good fortune of Metro Manilans. If that is the problem, then the solution is to make Metro Manilans poor again.
The most recent application of lateral thinking was on the Squatter problem, which to our technocrats, is not a problem. In a magazine interview, he said that looking at the squatters, as a problem would make it a structural matter.
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