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    The document describes Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats technique for parallel thinking. The six hats represent different perspectives or types of thinking - white for facts, red for emotions, black for caution, yellow for optimism, green for creativity, and blue for organization and control. Wearing different hats allows groups to examine ideas from multiple angles simultaneously rather than debating. The technique aims to improve meetings, save time, foster understanding and remove ego to enable productive decision making. Case studies demonstrate applying the hats to problems.

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    The document describes Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats technique for parallel thinking. The six hats represent different perspectives or types of thinking - white for facts, red for emotions, black for caution, yellow for optimism, green for creativity, and blue for organization and control. Wearing different hats allows groups to examine ideas from multiple angles simultaneously rather than debating. The technique aims to improve meetings, save time, foster understanding and remove ego to enable productive decision making. Case studies demonstrate applying the hats to problems.

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    6 Thinking Hats

    By Edward De Bono
    Edward De
    Bono
    Agenda
    Background

    Parallel Thinking

    Advantages

    Six Thinking Hats


    - how to use it?

    Case Studies -
    Apply Hats to the
    Problems
    Background
    Background
    Edward De Bono

    Most Revolutionary thinking change of 2300 yrs

    Examples - ABB, Siemens, GE etc.

    Thinking - ultimate resource | Confusion - ultimate problem in thinking One

    thing at a time
    Advantages of Six Hats
    More productive Meetings

    Time Saving

    Create, evaluate and execute action plans

    Improved communication and understanding

    Removal of Ego (reduce confrontation)

    And much More..


    Parallel Thinking
    At any moment everyone is looking in
    the same direction.
    Traditional Vs. Parallel Thinking

    ● Take sides. Opposite ● All parties think from same


    point of view. point of view. Co-ordinate.
    ● Argue your point ● Lay out all the
    ● Prove other side wrong differing/different ideas
    ● Get a full view of the
    problem from all the angles
    using six hats
    Six thinking hats are..
    Six Different types of thinking.
    Hats help groups to do parallel thinking.
    You can ‘Put on’ and ‘Put off’ Hats.
    Six Colors
    White: neutral, facts

    Red: emotional, feeling

    Black: caution, danger

    Yellow: positive, optimistic

    Green: creative

    Blue: organizational
    General Warnings
    Hats are not category of people. Don’t put people into box.

    Constructive way of showing off - better thinker

    Everyone must use all the hats. E.g. I am not a Red hat thinker.

    Requires discipline while using the hat. Play along.

    No fixed sequence. No need for all the hats.


    White Hat

    Neutral. Objective.
    Be Like Computer.
    Facts, figures and
    information.
    White Hat Thinking
    Neutral hats, talks only about facts, figures and data.

    Be like computer while wearing the hats. Excludes emotions.

    What info do we have? What are the facts? and/or What info do we need?

    Two tier facts: Believed facts & Checked facts


    Red Hat

    Feeling. Hunches.
    Emotions.
    How do we feel about this?
    Red Hat Thinking
    Gives you an opportunity to express feeling and emotion.

    Intuition and hunches. Likes and Dislikes.

    Legitimize the emotion as part of discussion No

    need for justification.


    Black Hat

    Caution and Careful.


    Focus on Risks & Problems.
    What are the potential problems in it?
    Black Hat
    Black hat thinking is concerned with caution and careful

    Hat of survival. Base of critical thinking.

    Logical negative: why it wont work

    We need to consider the risks, dangers, potential problems

    Most abused hat. As we are naturally programmed for this.


    Yellow Hat

    Positive and Optimistic.


    Looking for upside.
    What are the benefits?
    Yellow Hat Thinking
    Develop ‘value sensitivity’ (opposite to danger sensitivity)

    Naturally not programmed to do so unlike black hat

    Yellow hat looks for positive side and benefits

    I know the risk of doing it, now need some yellow hat thinking on it!

    Why something may work though it is outrageous!


    Yellow Hat
    ..before we start meeting I need you to put Yellow hat

    (than black hat) and decide the time for office daily!

    ..now that you told be all the downside of the idea,

    Why you don’t like it and why it will fail. Can you do

    Some yellow hat thinking now?


    Green Hat

    Creativity. Growth.
    New ideas and alternatives.
    Suggest me some new ideas to increase
    sales without lowering price?
    Green Hat Thinking
    Hardest hat to wear.

    Hat of Creativity, new approach to problems

    Generation of new ideas and find new alternatives

    Collect the idea with green hat then do some Yellow hat and black hat thinking on it.
    Blue Hat

    Organizational hat.
    Control of other hats.
    Facilitator
    Blue Hat Thinking
    Should be used in Starting and End of the session

    Setting the thinking tasks: Why are we here

    Why are we here? And What we want to achieve?

    Focus and control of the process.

    Decide the sequence of other hats


    And closing with Blue hat
    Outcome of the whole session

    Solution

    Next steps

    Conclusion
    Thank you
    Presented by Yuvraj Zala

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