lateral-escape

Business

de Bono lateral escape sequence — identify dominant idea, generate provocations (escape/reversal/exaggeration/distortion), follow consequences to extract new framings. Breaks paradigm lock-in.

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Lateral Escape

Break paradigm lock-in through systematic provocation.

Operations

dominant-idea-identification → provocation-generation → consequence-following

Available SOPs

Subagent: dominant-idea-identification, provocation-generation, consequence-following Import: web-research

Execution Guidance

First identify what everyone "knows" (the dominant idea), then systematically challenge it via PO provocations (4 types: escape, reversal, exaggeration, distortion), follow each provocation's consequences to see if viable new framings emerge.

The goal is not to prove the dominant idea wrong — it is to escape its gravitational pull and discover what becomes visible from outside it.

Minimum Yield

<HARD-GATE>
- Dominant ideas identified: >= 2
- Provocations generated: >= 4 (one per type minimum)
- Consequence chains followed: >= 3
- Viable new framings extracted: >= 1
</HARD-GATE>

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
consequence-following	Follow a provocation's logical consequences step by step to extract viable insights and new research directions.
deep-insight-provocation-generation	Generate de Bono lateral thinking provocations to challenge dominant ideas using escape, reversal, exaggeration, and distortion.
deep-insight-web-research	Deep web research with full page fetching via Apify. Import of web-browsing/web-research skill. Must fetch full page — no conclusions from previews.
dominant-idea-identification	Identify dominant paradigms and assumptions constraining thinking in a research field.