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Six Thinking Hats
Company
LOGO
Source: De Bono, Edward. (1999). Six Thinking
Hats. MICA Management Resource Inc.r
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Introduction
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PART 01: THE SIX HATS
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Paper
• Pure facts
• Neutral
• Computer-like
• No interpretation
• No opinion
• Separate beliefs from
informations
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Fire
• Emotions
• Feelings
• Hunch / intuitions
• Recognizing values
• No reasons required
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Poison
• Risk
• Danger
• Error
• Critical
• Cautious
• Careful
• Cons
• Logical-based
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Sun
• Optimistic
• Possibilities
• Opportunities
• Values / benefits
• Vision / dreams
• Pros
• Logical-based
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Tree
• Creativity
• Fertile / alternatives
• Break the pattern
• Movement
• Provocation
• Po
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Sky
• Control
• Conductor
• Thinking about
thinking
• Flow / agenda
• Goal
• Conclusion
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PART 02: THE BENEFITS
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1st Benefits Company
LOGO
Keep one thing at a time
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2nd Benefits
Reducing noises
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3rd Benefits
Increasing flexibility of thinking
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4th Benefits
Building idea from scratch
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5th Benefit
Leveraging the power of us
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PART 03: HOW TO USE IT
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The sequence
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• First ideas
• Blue : focus and definition of the subject
• White : what do we know about the situation?
• Green : generation of ideas
• Quick assessment
• Yellow : what are the benefits and values?
• Blue : summarising the good points
• Evaluation
• Yellow : what are the benefits and values?
• Black : what are the difficulties and danger?
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• Improvement
• Black : what are the weaknesses?
• Green : how can we overcome the
weaknesses?
• Choice
• Green : what are the alternatives
• Yellow : what are the good points about each
alternatives?
• Black : what are the bad points about each
alternatives?
• Red : now, how do we feel about it?
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• Final assessment
• Black : is it feasible? Is it worth doing? What
are the dangers?
• Red : now, how do we feel about it?
• Action possibilities
• Green : what are the possibiilities?
• Blue : summary of the possibilities
• White : matching the possibilities with info
• Emotions
• Red : how do we feel about it?
• White : what is the actual situation?
• Green : is there another way to look about it?
• Blue : what is the conclusion?
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• Caution
• Blue : what exactly are we considering?
• White : what do we know?
• Black : where do we need to be cautious?
• Opportunity
• White : what do we know about the
situation?
• Green : what is the idea?
• Yellow : what are the benefits of the idea?
• Creative efforts
• Blue : clarification of creative need
• White : information on area
• Green : generating ideas
• Yellow : benefits of ideas
• Black : identify faults in ideas
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• Problem solving
• Blue : definition of the problem
• White : information available
• Green : possible solutions
• Yellow : feasibility of each solution
• Black : weakness of each solution
• White : match solutions to information. Are
the solutions feasible based on the
information we have?
• Blue : Choice of final solution and next step
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1st Principles
It is all about mapping and exploring the problem
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2nd Principle
Timing does matter
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3rd Principle
Discipline, discipline, discipline
