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menahilnauman's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.0
interesting concept that did not need to be 177 pages long? could have been a fully summary in like 30 pages. the idea of different hats to handle complicated problems one at a time is very helpful! i wish there was references to the stats and claims he was making, particularly around “chinese & japanese philosophy”?
penny_dreadfool's review against another edition
1.0
This book is so poorly written. The book dedicated about 6-9 chapters to each hat, but only states and restates previous stuff. He is so repetitive and boring in his writing style it pissed me off. Not to mention he’s also misogynistic and fat phobic according to several back-handed comments sprinkled into each hat section. Waste of time and annoying.
notaturnip's review against another edition
3.0
It’s nice to think that different terms will remove the sting of ‘stop being negative you idiot’ from meetings, but there’s only so long before ‘please take off your black hat’ means the same thing but without a trip to HR. An interesting idea, but I think that execution would be more difficult than is suggested in this book.
tyndareos's review against another edition
1.0
The Six Thinking Hats method by Edward de Bono is overly simplistic and not particularly useful in solving complex problems. The concept of breaking down thinking into different "hats" or perspectives is not new and can be achieved through more simple and straightforward methods. The method also relies heavily on group participation which can be difficult to coordinate and often leads to groupthink rather than independent critical thinking. Furthermore, the approach is inflexible and doesn't consider the unique nature of different problems and situations. I found it to be more of a distraction than a helpful tool in my decision-making process. Overall, I would not recommend the Six Thinking Hats method.
gabrielle_erin's review against another edition
2.0
First of all, I really respect de Bono's research, theories and methods. I think the application of the Six Thinking Hats in the education sphere has great potential and has clearly been proven successful in the business sector.
That being said, some academics just cannot parse a sentence for shit. This book was so poorly constructed, it's a miracle I managed to understand the theory at all. Heavy editing was required to make this user-friendly, and I am genuinely shocked that this has not occurred, considering this is the "manual" businesses are using to apply this method in their workplaces. Sidenote: I read the REVISED edition. I simply cannot imagine how the first edition read.
The chapters were so insanely repetitive and focused on examples of conversations rather than explaining the methods. The only parts of each chapter that were relevant to readers were the introduction and the summary. The rest read completely as filler, and often as self-promotion for de Bono's other work.
I also found it extremely frustrating that the entire method is based on "mapping thinking" yet he never once explains what this looks like in practice. There is references to "adding this to the map" but this vague and abstract notion undermined what is overall, a very solid concept.
I will definitely read more on de Bono's work, but absolutely not if it is written by him.
That being said, some academics just cannot parse a sentence for shit. This book was so poorly constructed, it's a miracle I managed to understand the theory at all. Heavy editing was required to make this user-friendly, and I am genuinely shocked that this has not occurred, considering this is the "manual" businesses are using to apply this method in their workplaces. Sidenote: I read the REVISED edition. I simply cannot imagine how the first edition read.
The chapters were so insanely repetitive and focused on examples of conversations rather than explaining the methods. The only parts of each chapter that were relevant to readers were the introduction and the summary. The rest read completely as filler, and often as self-promotion for de Bono's other work.
I also found it extremely frustrating that the entire method is based on "mapping thinking" yet he never once explains what this looks like in practice. There is references to "adding this to the map" but this vague and abstract notion undermined what is overall, a very solid concept.
I will definitely read more on de Bono's work, but absolutely not if it is written by him.