Six Thinking Hats
by Edward de Bono

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Book Review: A great book - with a good theory of thought that works!
Summary: 5 Stars

Greater thinkers think from multiple perspectives. He has proclaimed that this process reduces time spent in meetings by 20 to 90 percent, based on letters that he received after publishing the book. The core problem that De Bono addresses is the fact that our way of thinking is extremely muddled and cluttered. Groups are not well equipped to deal with a broad array of statistics and perspectives concurrently. De Bono endeavors to abolish these problems �Ehere is how he does it.
According to De Bono, people learn best when they are playing. Therefore his approach (the six hat approach) deals with thinking, learning, deciding, and communicating - in a playful and good-natured type of manner. By assigning each person a role to play, the method reduces the amount of personality-based conflict, encourages much more contribution, and gives rationale to many diverse ways to present the issue at hand. This way, everyone is getting involved, and thinking about sides of the dice that they wouldn't have thought about originally. Also, since the means is focused on getting lots out onto the table, it also postpones judgment longer so that more ideas can immerge. Thus, as De Bono points out himself, it is much closer to the Japanese approach of making evaluations than the American one.

The color scheme is quite straightforward -

The person, who is wearing the blue hat, is considered to be the coordinator and organizer. The book relates this person to a conductor of an orchestra. The function of the blue hat is to make sure that the dialogue keeps on route. Cool and control�Ethinking about thinking�E

White plays an imperative and crucial role. It must be stressed that the white hat is exceptionally unbiased and contemplates on figures and information. The white hat should not offer any interpretations, analysis or opinions about the information given. While wearing the white thinking hat, the thinker should imitate the computer.

The black hat points out what is erroneous, and explains why something won't succeed. So, as you can probably gather, the black hat is accountable for a pessimistic evaluation. This includes asking negative questions. Devil's advocate, negative judgment, why something won't work�E

The idea of the green hat is to be as creative as possible. Most ideas begin with the green hat - and which then get analyzed from the black and yellow hat. I would classify this one as the entrepreneurial hat - fertile, creative, plants springing from seeds, movement, provocation.

Yellow resembles sunshine. Sunshine creates brightness. And brightness allows opportunity to exist. This is the significance of the yellow hat. The view of this hat is to open up all the possibilities and potential. Extremely speculative and affirmative �Ethe yellow hat is unquestionably the optimistic and buoyant side of the coin. Yellow hat thinking covers �Edreams, visions and hopes�E

The red hat's role is to embody feelings and emotions to present both optimistic and pessimistic emotional reactions. Intuition is a word that relates very much to the red hat. The red hat allows the thinker to say: this is how I think about the matter.

Enjoy the book - its a fabulous read - 5 stars to say the least! I recommend it to anyone. This thought process can be used either on an individual level, or on a group level. It's a lot of fun - and yes! it does work! Give it a try!

Regards,
Vaughan Allison

University Student
Degree - Asia Pacific Management
University - Ritsumeikan APU

Summary of Six Thinking Hats

Creativity Books

• Subjects > Self-Help > Creativity
• Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Management
• Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Entrepreneurship