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Six Thinking Hats Paperback – August 18, 1999

by Edward de Bono (Author)

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Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.
Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. "We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls." The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats":

WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figures
RED HAT: the emotional view
BLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hat
YELLOW HAT: sunny and positive
GREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideas
BLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat

Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you--and your business, whether it's a start-up or a major corporation--can use to create a climate of clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life.

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Revised and Updated ed. edition (August 18, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316178314
ISBN-13: 978-0316178310
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 248 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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G. Tao

the book is a real fine, fine thinking tool

July 18, 2017

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This is a 25 years old book that I only just heard of. As a business book, its ideas are hard to implement so they have gone nowhere. But turns out, the book is a real fine, fine thinking tool. Its ideas are new, bold and compassionate in an unusual way. One can become conscious of one's own thinking. The book doesn't negate the value of judgment or analysis which lots of new-age thinking slams. It doesn't exalt analytical thinking as the only problem solving mechanism. Creativity is at once a skill, a talent and personality. It can be developed. It's also disciplined. We human beings are each capable of balancing all kinds of thinking at different times so best we stop labeling ourselves as critical or creative. We can each develop and change. The mention of Freud's emphasis on inner analysis vs Confucius' on actions (both are needed, the influence is bi-directional) is also enlightening. I will be looking into this author to learn more.

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Improving the way we think

May 15, 2016

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If you look at the human history, everything that is manmade comes from the way we think and communicate. We all have our own unique perspectives on how we view the world and many times, there are conflicts because we tend put our egos first before anything else. "Six Thinking Hats" by Edward De Bono can teach you how to put your egos aside and help you utilize his six thinking hats. This strategy will help you in many situations, especially when you are working as a group or organization because it is about efficient communication and effective decision-making. There are six different colored hats and each hat serves a purpose and reasoning. Let us say that you are in a meeting with a group of people with a same goal. Assuming that everyone had a different strategy of achieving that goal, there can be some conflicts due to their ideas. This is where the six thinking hats come in to play. The White Hat can be used when you define what information can be obtained and what is needed. The Green Hat represents creative thinking and sharing those unique ideas with each other. This is where the Yellow Hat and the Black Hat comes in handy. The Yellow Hat shows the positives and optimisms of each idea that is presented and the Black Hat lists all the negatives and skepticisms about the same ideas. After going through the pros and cons, you ask you group about how they feel about each idea by wearing the Red Hat, in which, represents feelings and emotions. To finalize the meeting with one strategy that is in the best interest of the whole group, you wear the Blue Hat, where you come to a decision after going through the process. I highly recommend that you read this book because using these thinking hats will benefit you in your personal and professional lives in terms of communication and decision-making.

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I think that this book is a great eye opener to the different aspects that you can ...

May 18, 2017

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Generally, I think that this book is a great eye opener to the different aspects that you can think of when you are trying to tackle a discussion or problems—be it in a business point of view or life in general. To summarize De Bono’s theory, there are six thinking hats; white for objective facts and figures, red for emotions and feelings, black for cautious and careful, yellow for positive thinking, green for creativity and lateral thinking, and last but not least blue for control and organization of thinking. While all of these hats represent different parts to think about solving something, the main concept is to only use one at a time in a sequence. He gives examples on how to apply his theory; such as the sequence of using the hats and also the ideal person to use the hat in the given situations. One thing that I like about this concept is that DeBono assigned colors to these hats so that they can be easily remembered and that the person “using” these hats feels that they are in a role-play. I think that this makes problem solving less stressful, while covering the critical aspects that needs to be discussed. However, in my opinion, I think this concept would be more useful to moderate a group rather than using it as an individual. We can use these thinking hats as bullet points during the discussion with a group of people, so that everyone is on the same page and that the discussion would be more organized. Moreover, I think that his examples are have somewhat of a limited exposure, and should be elaborated further. Hence, I think that this book is okay.

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I thought this might seem like a odd

October 1, 2017

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I thought this might seem like a odd, cutesy concept but after reading the book, I think it is a great tool set for directing your method of thinking. I bought the book because it was referenced in another book I liked. I highly recommend this book and concept to facilitate meetings, build a good business culture and for your own focused method of thinking. Forces you to take a very focused approach to your style of thinking.

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