Six Thinking Hats

YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas It is an approach that thousands of business managers educators and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success 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