A review by dzsossz
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono

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.