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yates9's review against another edition
4.0
The great thing about this book is that it shows the power of a simple framing exercise to transform our understanding of social interaction modes. The perspective de Bono offers may or may not be accurate, complete and precise, but ti can work, and work well because it establishes a protocol for people to understand working with each other, even when there may be conflicts or misunderstanding.
The book isn't the end of the story with respects to collective productive problem solving but as far as I know it is one of the best in terms of readability and ease of access. There should be other texts like this to get you thinking about the world under different terms.
The book isn't the end of the story with respects to collective productive problem solving but as far as I know it is one of the best in terms of readability and ease of access. There should be other texts like this to get you thinking about the world under different terms.
smitchy's review against another edition
3.0
I found the concept behind this book fascinating in that it changes how you think about a problem. The over explanation of each of the hats did my head in a bit. But I guess the more ways a thing is explained the more people will understand it - I have a feeling if I were learning this in a more dynamic environment (eg. at a seminar with an enthusiastic presenter) the multiple explanations would be smoother with less overlap.
shahednasser's review against another edition
3.0
Although the concept this book talks about can be insightful, the book can be at most 30 pages long. I ended up just reading the summaries of the remaining hats.
dzsossz's review
4.0
The real test is when I can use this in practice, but I liked the approach of focusing thinking to help make better decisions. As a regular facilitator and person responsible for helping others through their thinking process, I recognise many approaches as “green hat” or “black hat” and so on. My main concern is how to introduce this approach in a real environment. Training everyone seems impractical, also a quick explanation at the start of a meeting may not do it justice. I’m going to try an increment approach but referring to different hats from time to time, with the goal of things rubbing off gradually. I’ll also be testing it with my own thinking. I hope it will help to reduce the complexity of problems I am struggling with. It’s a quick read and useful to be able to evaluate by observation how people in groups are actually thinking.
loz232's review against another edition
2.0
Common sense, skimmable book. Could definitely be summarised in an article but I guess that’s not as profitable.
“The Six Thinking Hats method may well be the most important change in human thinking for the past twenty-theee hundred years”.
And that’s just the first sentence! -1 star because I cba with the classic humble modesty of de Bono like all other older male psychologists.
“The Six Thinking Hats method may well be the most important change in human thinking for the past twenty-theee hundred years”.
And that’s just the first sentence! -1 star because I cba with the classic humble modesty of de Bono like all other older male psychologists.
beentsy's review against another edition
3.0
Critical thinking seminar at work next week and this is my homework. Sigh.
atris_lauraborealis's review against another edition
2.0
Interesting concept. Could have been summed up in a single page.
gianouts's review against another edition
4.0
This is a very easy read and provides a good simple approach for exploring ideas and problems through thinking from different perspectives in a structured manner. There are six hats, each of which have different characteristics:
- White Hat: facts, figures, information
- Red Hat: emotions and feelings, hunch and intuition
- Black Hat: devil's advocate, negative judgement
- Yellow Hat: optimism, positivity
- Green Hat: creativity
- Blue Hat: controlling of the hats and thinking, orchestration
The idea of the hat is that a person will put on or be asked to put on a hat and to express a view from that perspective. This gets people thinking in different ways and since it is play-acting people are more willing to express views from under the security of the hat that otherwise may be left unsaid.
- White Hat: facts, figures, information
- Red Hat: emotions and feelings, hunch and intuition
- Black Hat: devil's advocate, negative judgement
- Yellow Hat: optimism, positivity
- Green Hat: creativity
- Blue Hat: controlling of the hats and thinking, orchestration
The idea of the hat is that a person will put on or be asked to put on a hat and to express a view from that perspective. This gets people thinking in different ways and since it is play-acting people are more willing to express views from under the security of the hat that otherwise may be left unsaid.