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Six Thinking Hats
Back Bay Books
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
The international bestseller that has changed the way the world’s most successful business leaders think.
“We owe de Bono a debt for constantly reminding us that thinking is a skill and can be improved.” - Psychology Today
Six Thinking Hats can help you think better – with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.
“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:”
Blue Hat: Thinking about and managing the thinking process.
Green Hat: Generating ideas.
Red Hat: Intuition and feelings.
Yellow Hat: Benefits and values.
Black Hat: Caution and identifying obstacles.
White Hat: Knowledge and information.
