Six Thinking Hats

Six Thinking Hats by the world-renowned philosopher and expert on creative thinking, Edward de Bono, is the essential guide to revolutionising the way your teams think, discuss, and make decisions. For decades, the Six-Hats method has been used with huge success by major global organisations like IBM, Siemens, and NASA to dramatically cut meeting times and increase productivity. This technique is an extraordinarily simple yet powerful framework that separates thinking into six clear, distinct functions, each represented by a colored hat:

• White Hat: Focuses on information, facts, and data.
• Red Hat: Focuses on feelings, intuition, and emotions.
• Black Hat: Focuses on caution, difficulties, and potential risks (The Devil’s Advocate).
• Yellow Hat: Focuses on optimism, value, and benefits.
• Green Hat: Focuses on creativity, new ideas, and alternatives.
• Blue Hat: Manages the thinking process itself (The Organiser).

By having all participants wear the same “hat” simultaneously, teams can avoid argumentative debate and move efficiently through all necessary perspectives, leading to:

• Meetings that are reduced to a fraction of their previous length.
• Decisions are made in minutes, rather than hours.
• A dramatic increase in team cohesion and collaborative trust.

If you are a leader struggling with unstructured, unproductive meetings, Six Thinking Hats provides the simple tool you need to enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and make almost self-evident decisions.