Six Thinking Hats: The Multi-Million Bestselling Guide to Running Better Meetings and Making Faster Decisions

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. Resource Added For The Communication 108011 Courses. Playacting: If You Playact Being A Thinker, You Will Become One -- Putting On A Hat: A Very Deliberate Process -- Intention And Performance -- Role-playing: An Ego Holiday -- Melancholy And Other Fluids -- The Purpose Of Six Hat Thinking -- Six Hats, Six Colors -- The White Hat: Facts And Figures -- White Hat Thinking: Whose Fact Is It? -- White Hat Thinking: Japanese-style Input -- White Hat Thinking: Facts, Truth And Philosophers -- White Hat Thinking: Who Puts On The Hat? -- Summary Of White Hat Thinking -- The Red Hat: Emotions And Feelings -- Red Hat Thinking: The Place Of Emotions In Thinking -- Red Hat Thinking: Intuition And Hunches -- Red Hat Thinking Moment To Moment -- Red Hat Thinking: The Use Of Emotions -- Red Hat Thinking: The Language Of Emotions -- Summary Of Red Hat Thinking -- The Black Hat: What Is Wrong With It -- Black Hat Thinking: Substance And Method -- Black Hat Thinking: Past And Future Substance -- Black Hat Thinking: Negative Indulgence -- Black Hat Thinking: Negative Or Positive First? -- Summary Of Black Hat Thinking -- The Yellow Hat: Speculative-positive -- Yellow Hat Thinking: The Positive Spectrum -- Yellow Hat Thinking: Reasons And Logical Support -- Yellow Hat Thinking: Constructive Thinking -- Yellow Hat Thinking: Speculation -- Yellow Hat Thinking: Relation To Creativity -- Summary Of Yellow Hat Thinking -- The Green Hat: Creative And Lateral Thinking -- Green Hat Thinking: Lateral Thinking -- Green Hat Thinking: Movement Instead Of Judgment -- Green Hat Thinking: The Need For Provocation -- Green Hat Thinking: Alternatives -- Green Hat Thinking: Personality And Skill -- Green Hat Thinking: What Happens To The Ideas? -- Summary Of Green Hat Thinking -- The Blue Hat: Control Of Thinking -- Blue Hat Thinking: Focus -- Blue Hat Thinking: Program Design -- Blue Hat Thinking: Summaries And Conclusions -- Blue Hat Thinking: Control And Monitoring -- Summary Of Blue Hat Thinking -- Summaries: The Six Thinking Hats Method. Edward De Bono. Bibliography: P. [208] 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 figuresRED HAT: the emotional viewBLACK HAT: careful and cautious, the "devil's advocate" hatYELLOW HAT: sunny and positiveGREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideasBLUE HAT: cool, the colour of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hatThrough 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. THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON Do you regularly find yourself in long, unstructured meetings which end without a decision? Are you a team leader looking for tips on increasing productivity? Or are you looking for ways to enhance collaboration? Six Thinking Hats , Edward de Bono's classic book on meetings, remains as relevant as ever. Used to huge success by big companies and organisations such as IBM, Siemens and NASA, the Six-Hats method is a proven way to: - Reduce meeting length to one quarter of what they were previously - Make decisions in just 15 minutes, rather than 3 hours - Increase productivity by nearly 500% This extremely simple tool not only increases efficiency in discussions and decision-making, but also encourages openness and trust among colleagues, resulting in happier team, a rise in productivity, and decisions which almost make themselves. 'An inspiring man with brilliant ideas. De Bono never ceases to amaze' Sir Richard Branson "Thinking often proceeds as drift and waffle and reaction," writes de Bono. In this book, he presents a way to become a better thinker. He separates thinking into six distinct modes, identified with six colored "thinking hats": White: facts, figures, and objective information; Red: emotions and feelings; Black: logical negative thoughts; Yellow: positive constructive thoughts; Green: creativity and new ideas; and Blue: control of the other hats and thinking steps. "Putting on" a hat focuses thinking; "switching" hats redirects thinking. With the different parts of the thinking process defined, discussions can be better focused and more productive. Using real-life situations as examples, de Bono creates scenarios that show how the effective use of "thinking hats" can: focus thinking more clearly; lead to more creative thinking; and improve communication and thus decision-making The Classic Work About Decision-making From The World-renowned Writer And Philosopher Edward De Bono Meetings Are A Crucial Part Of All Our Lives, But Too Often They Go Nowhere And Waste Valuable Time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward De Bono Shows How Meetings Can Be Transformed To Produce Quick, Decisive Results Every Time. The Six Hats Method Is A Devastatingly Simple Technique Based On The Brain's Different Modes Of Thinking. The Intelligence, Experience And Information Of Everyone Is Harnessed To Reach The Right Conclusions Quickly. These Principles Fundamentally Change The Way You Work And Interact. They Have Been Adopted By Businesses And Governments Around The World To End Conflict And Confusion In Favour Of Harmony And Productivity. POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY. Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time. The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly. These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact. They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity Using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing Ben shu fen wei qi ge bu fen, Fen wei bai se si kao mao, Hong se si kao mao, Hei se si kao mao, Huang se si kao mao, Lü se si kao mao he lan se si kao mao.