...The Six thinking hats was developed by Edward de Bono in 1985. It has since become an international bestseller and integrated into many corporations for decision making saving tremendous amount of time and giving clear focus to complex business case situations. It focuses on “what can be” versus “what is”. Traditional thinking was defined 2300 years ago by the “Greek Gang of Three” Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. Their thinking was based on an argumentative model which is fine but not complete. Six thinking hats uses constructive, or parallel thinking model using the analogy of six hats to represent each perspective. The six hats are: - The white hat – facts and figures - The red hat - emotions and feelings - The black hat – cautious and careful - The yellow hat – Speculative and positive - The green hat - creative thinking - The blue hat – control of thinking This method is an excellent technique for making sure a problem is analyzed from all directions. It is a process that makes case analysis simple. It succeeds for several reasons: Power: The technique allows members of a group to go in one direction rather than defending a position. The experience and knowledge from all members is directed at the case. Time Saving: following the process and eliminating the argumentative method decisions are made more quickly, less time arguing. Removal of Ego: presenting and defending an idea can be become a defense of your ego versus real problem solving. With parallel...
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...manufacture and sell both steel and plastic rings or continue to manufacture and sell steel until their stock of steel is used up. In order to make this decision, it is essential that Lawrence implement critical thinking and decision making strategies among other resources. There are a lot of details to consider in regards to this decision, such as the value of the remaining steel, the amount of steel rings on hand, the cost of the industrial machines, and how much money would be needed to produce the plastic rings inclusive of the necessary tools and equipment. With gathering all the necessary information Lawrence would be using the white hat from the Six Thinking Hats process, an important and prevailing technique that allows a person to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This procedure provides a well-rounded view of a situation, forcing you to move outside your habitual thinking style. Colored hats are used as metaphors for each direction. Switching to a direction is symbolized by the act of putting on a colored hat, either literally or metaphorically. These metaphors allow for a more complete and elaborate separation of the thinking directions. Information, Emotions, Discernment, Optimistic Response, and Creativity, The six thinking hats indicate problems and solutions about an idea the thinker may come up with. If...
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...SUMMARY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK: “People do not choose an argument because it is the preferred method. They simply don’t know any other way. The Six Hats provides another way.” - (extract from the book) Six Think Hats provides us with an entirely different approach of thinking. The author introduces the art of “parallel thinking”. Communication, decision making, brain-storming, meetings are made a whole lot easier and effective with the Six Thinking Hats method. Six Thinking Hats is a 177 page book with 43 chapters. The chapters are organized into six major sections, which focus on the functions of six different hats. The first three chapters introduce the concept of six hats to the readers. The rest of the chapters address the hats with 5 to 8 chapters per section. The last two chapters provide the benefits of using the six hats method and conclusion. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward de Bono is regarded as the leading authority in direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He originated the term “lateral thinking” and has developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. Biography: Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born in Malta on 19 May 1933. De Bono then gained a medical degree from the University of Malta. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, in England where he gained an MA in psychology and physiology. He also has a PhD degree and a DPhil in medicine from Trinity College, Cambridge, a DDes (Doctor of Design) from the Royal...
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...BOOK TITLE : SIX THINKING HATS AUTHOR : EDWARD DE BONO In this book the author introduces a way of how to think. He introduces the concept of parallel thinking. He says that the enemy of thought is its complexity, which leads to confusion. When the thoughts are clear and simple, it is easy to make decisions. The concept of six hats is very simple to understand and use. In ordinary, unstructured thinking this process is unfocused; the thinker leaps from critical thinking to neutrality to optimism and so on without structure or strategy. The Six Hats Thinking process attempts to introduce parallel thinking. Many individuals are used to this and develop their own habits unconsciously. Sometimes, these are effective and sometimes times not effective. What is certain is that when thinking in a group these individual strategies will tend not to converge. As a result, discussion will not tend to converge. Due to the power of ego and the identified predilection to black thinking hat in the majority of western culture, it can lead to very destructive meetings. Even with clear shared objectives and good courtesy in any collaborative thinking activity there is a natural tendency for "spaghetti thinking" where one person is thinking about the benefits while another considers the facts and so on. The six hats process avoids this. Everyone considers and everyone looks in the same direction together. For example, a façade of a house (metaphorically speaking) and then the group will turn...
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...Evaluating Practical Workplace Decisions Using de Bono’s ‘Six Thinking Hats’ Background/Bio on Dr. Edward de Bono Dr. Edward de Bono 1933 to current. (Systems, 2014) Dr. Edward de Bono 1933 to current. (Systems, 2014) Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2005, Edward de Bono is regarded by many as the leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is equally renowned for his development of the Six Thinking Hats technique and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools. He is the originator of the concept of Lateral Thinking, which is now part of language and is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. Dr. de Bono was born in Malta. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, holds an MA in psychology and physiology from Oxford, a D. Phil. in Medicine and also a Ph.D. from Cambridge. He has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard. His instruction in thinking has been sought by many organizations: IBM, Prudential, GM, BT (UK), NTT (Japan), Nokia (Finland), Mondadori (Italy), Total (France), Siemens (Germany), Bosch (Germany), Ericsson (Sweden) and many others. His methods are now mandatory in the school curriculum in many countries and widely used in others. He has written 70 books with translations into 38 languages and has been invited to lecture in 57 countries. Dr. de Bono was chosen by a group of academics as one of the 250 people who had contributed most...
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...SEMINAR PAPER Creative Techniques for Problem Solving Korbinian Dennerlein H0954189 Strategy, Innovation & Management Control Vienna University of Economics and Business Course: 5876 Personal skills -‐ Problem solving Instructor: Desislava Vacheva (BSc.MSc.) Korbinian Dennerlein H0954189 CREATIVE TECHNIQUES Innovation and creativity foster and generate a crucial resource in today’s constantly changing business environment. It is essential to handle this resource carefully and to act target oriented in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Nevertheless, it is important not to lose focus on the core business and to keep the balance between exploitation and exploration. Therefore, it is important to apply creativity in the right way. This application should preserve the stable and working organization from being too chaotic. A general way to divide the various approaches is to cluster them into divergent and convergent techniques. Divergent techniques aim at generating a high number of ideas in order to have a wide range of possible solutions to choose from. In comparison, convergent techniques deal with a certain problem and search step-by-step for a single right solution.1 In the beginning of this paper I want to explain one divergent concept in...
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...Six Caps Case Study University of Phoenix Undergraduate Nursing Studies Introduction In the words of Albert Einstein, “the world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Today more and more nurses have to change their thinking process to ensure clients receive quality care. Therefore, clinical judgments cannot be based on speculation but on outcome, directed thinking. As the client health status changes, the nurse must be able recognize, assess, and evaluate all the presenting information to make an outcome decision that is best for the client and client’s family. To make appropriate decisions require nurses to put on their thinking caps. Edward de Bono’s six thinking caps integrates knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation allowing the nurse to make quality, outcome based decision. The purpose of this paper will focus on a case study using six thinking caps to critically analyze and make clinical decisions in promoting client safety and quality care. White Cap Thinking Looking at the case study with the White, Ms. Marianne first presented with a severe headache. The nurse uses her knowledge base about hemorrhagic stroke to decide what additional information is needed. Since information cannot be obtained from the patient, the nurse ask the patient’s family questions about the patient’s health problems, family health problems, medical history, medication regimen...
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...father of lateral thinking and creativity came up with the six thinking hats system so that organisations can be more productive, focused, and mindfully involved. The six hats were coloured: * White * Yellow * Black * Red * Green * Blue White Facts (also known as white paper) - The people under the white hat are required to retrieve all of the facts that may be needed this includes all the data and information. They are also required to identify information that may be needed. Yellow Positive (also known as sun shine) - The people under the yellow hat are required to have a positive view of things and to look for benefits in the given decision or situation they will also encourage a positive view on the rest of the team. Black Negative (also known as a stern judge) - The people under the black hat will always be cautious of every decision or situation Red Feelings (also known as fire and warmth) - The people under the red hat will say what they feel without being judged. Green Creativity (also known as vegetation and rich growth) - the people under the green hat are required to be creative and to come up with new ideas. Blue Control (also known as the sky and overview) - the people working under the blue hat are in control of the process, they ask for summaries, conclusions and decisions . Why Six Thinking Hats Here are a couple of reasons for using Six Thinking Hats: 1. More complete thinking. Six Thinking Hats helps you leverage...
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...SIX HATS THINKING: KRISHNAKUMAR NALLU Homo sapiens are considered to be one of the blessed and unique multi cellular organisms in earth since we humans have innate and highly evolved trait of power to think. But most of the time while working as a team a lot of conflict arises in decision making process to arrive at a at decision since thought process are not quite similar for any two individuals or a group of individuals. Ed ward de bono stated that the emotions, the information, the logic, the hope and creativity suppresses our thinking process and we squander too much of time in mixed emotion of thoughts and finally we end up in a messy outcome. So in order to streamline our thinking process Edward de bono suggested “six thinking hats” each hat defines certain type of thinking and wearing each of these hats under various stages results in parallel thinking and as a team we become much more productive. Six hats consists of which White hat which calls for facts, information; Red hats which takes into account of feelings and emotions; Black hat signifies caution and critical thinking; Yellow hat thinking insists on optimism and positive outcomes; Green hat focusing on creativity and innovation and finally the Blue Hat which ensures all the six thinking hats are observed and followed in the THINKING process. The color of each hats itself has their own implied meaning ie, Red color symbolizes fury and emotions, White color a neutral color, being objective, Black color...
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...other, must be made. Several decision-making processes are available for use to determine the best course of action. The purpose of a decision-making process is to diagnose the issues needing clarification, identifying options and the impacts of those options, and finally to arrive at a conclusive decision. We will use the Six Thinking Hats technique to scrutinize our ideas and arrive at the best decision for the nation of Kava and its people. Six Thinking Hats is a decision making process, developed by Edward de Bono, which allows us to explore different points of view about difficult challenges (The de Bono Group LLC ). Seeing ideas from differing points is a sound strategy to follow when tackling complex issues. The Value Based Management (2010) website states that the Six Thinking Hats, STH, technique as the name implies comprises of six different points of view all demarked by six colors. The white hat is the thinking hat, is neutral, and focuses on what is known to find gaps in the available data. The red hat is the gut feeling hat, follows emotion, and intuition. The black hat is the pessimist, and sees problems in advance. The yellow hat is...
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...years and supervised primarily with a red hat, addressing most issues based on her emotions. (deBono, 1999) I do see the benefit of having this hat on in certain situations, but not with this issue. The manager was too close to the client and issue to see beyond her emotions. In retrospect, I believe I wore several hats during that meeting. I presented the plain facts to the Manager and Director, providing the data that I requested the required documents, entered the data received timely and denied the application appropriately, albeit my white hat. I then stated that doing anything other than that would have resulted in fraud on my part, as well as the client, the black hat. From there, I suggested that we go forward and be proactive. The verifications that were requested have all been received at this point, but the application had expired. I explained that we can very easily resolve this issue by asking the client to complete another application. I would process the new application with the data that we now had and approve services that the client qualified for, obviously wearing my green hat. (deBono, 1999) Fortunately, the Director performed his job, regularly, wearing all hat colors, but mostly the blue hat, distributing an aura of objectivity and control. (deBono, 1999) I can see how focusing on just one hat could be very dangerous. There is a definite advantage in recognizing the danger and practicing the other hats attributes for a...
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...could draw conflicts out longer average. | Consequences | Teams realizing consequences allow creativity within the group. | Team members who believe he or she is not accountable may omit themselves from the consequence. | 2. Identify the team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing, and provide the rationale for the decision. Your response should be at least 100 words. The diverse group of employees at Riodan Manufacturing Pontiac, Missouri will allow a team formation strategy called Six Hats. The concept behind Six Hats is each employee wears a different "hat" (role) in the team. Each of the Six Thinking Hats represents a different direction or type of thinking, which is identified by a color (Application of Six Thinking Hats in Education, 2011) : * White for facts and data * Black for difficulties and problems * Red for feelings and gut instinct * Green for creativity * Yellow for value and benefits * Blue for thinking process With the exception of three employees (Tucker, Shotwell,...
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...BONO SIX THINKING HATS Granica Editions E Original dición: Viking, England, 1986 I title Original: Six Thinking Hat Translation: Marcela Pandolfo Design of Cover: A.R. 1985 Mica Management Inc. Resources. 1988 Editions Juan Granica S.A. Bertran 107, 08023 Barcelona, Spain YOU: 211-2112 Produced for editions Juan Granica S.A. By ADELPHI S.A., Tte. Gral. J. D. Perón 2093 Good Airs, Argentina. YOU: 953-4849 2da Reimpresión ISBN: 950-641-061-5 It is made the deposit that marks law 723 Form in Argentina - Printed in Argentina PREFACE I CAPITULATE 1. "To act as if". IF YOU ACT AS A THINKER YOU BECOME O N E I capitulate 2. Putting a hat. VERY DELIBERATE PROCESS CHAPTER 3. Intention and performance I CAPITULATE 4. To represent a paper. VACATIONS OF THE E G O I capitulate 5. The melancholy and other fluids I CAPITULATE 6. The intention of thinking with six hats I CAPITULATE 7. Six hats, six colors CHAPTER 8. The white hat. FACTS And NUMBERS I capitulate 9. Thought of white hat. OF THAT FACT SPEAKS TO ME? I CAPITULATE 10. Thought of white hat. INFORMATION OF STYLE JAPONES I CAPITULATE 11. Thought of white hat. FACTS, TRUTH And PHILOSOPHERS I CAPITULATE 12. Thought of white hat. WHO IS PUT THE HAT? I CAPITULATE 13. Summary of the thought of white hat I CAPITULATE 14.. The red hat. EMOTIONS And FEELINGS I CAPITULATE 15. Thought of red hat. PLACE OF THE EMOTIONS IN THE THOUGHT I CAPITULATE 16. Thought of red hat. INTUITION And PRESENTIMIENTOS I CAPITULATE 17. Thought of red hat. MOMENT...
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...effective thinking technique in which a person can evaluate all sides of critical decision making and most often plan for all possible scenarios in a particular situation. The situation that we are discussing in this scenario is the establishment of a Walgreens on the small island of Kava. The technique we will be using to analyze the situation is the “Six Thinking Hats” or the “de Bono Hats System”. As stated by Wikipedia (2009), S.T.H “is a thinking tool for group discussion and individual thinking. Combined with the idea of parallel thinking which is associated with it, it provides a means for groups to think together more effectively, and a means to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way.” In the article Six Thinking Hats: Looking at a Decision from All Points of View the author explained “Six thinking hats is a powerful technique that helps to look at important decisions from a number of different perspectives” (2008). He goes on to say “It helps to make better decision by pushing one to move outside their habitual ways of thinking. It helps to understand the full complexity of the decision, and spot issues and opportunities to which one might otherwise be blind” (U.K.A., 2008). When using this particular problem solving technique it makes it possible for one to solve problems and analyze scenarios from multiple approaches. We will now look at the Decisions in Paradise scenario using the “Six Thinking Hats” approach. White Hat/ Hat #1: ...
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...should be managers from TMM (mandatory Shirley Sargent, Da Prille, Lewis, Creemens) and with participation of KFS representative managers and somebody experienced from Tsutsumi. Taking into consideration that Tsutsumi didn't report so far any problem with the same engineering drawings, and also looking at their decrease in defects rate (from 7 occurrences per shift to one per shift by April), it looks that if they had a problem with the seats, they managed to solve it from the beginning. So, they should act like a benchmark for TMM; however, nobody asked them about it, even both plants belong to the same company. So internal cooperation should be encouraged between both factories. • In this team, as framework for thinking, we would encourage the team to use the Six Thinking Hats Method, for getting the real causes and finding optimal...
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