SIX THINKING HATS
The internationally
bestselling guide to better thinking used by tens of thousands of people fully
revised and updated.
There is nothing more sad and
wasteful than a roomful of intelligent and highly paid people waiting for a chance to
attack something the speaker has said. With the Six Hats method the fullest use is made of
everyone's intelligence, experience and information. The Six Hats also removes all 'ego'
from the discussion process.
The need for the Six Hats is
based on an understanding of how the brain chemicals change with the mode of thinking.
Using this method one major corporation reduced the time taken for multinational project
discussions from thirty days to just two days. Argument is inefficient, ineffective and
extremely slow. Argument was never designed to be constructive. The parallel thinking of
the Six Hats method is rapidly replacing argument around the world. From senior executives
at major corporatiojis like Siemens, NTT, Prudential (US) to four-year-olds in school.
From Khmer villagers in Cambodia to senior government departments. For 2,400 years we have
been content with argument which was never designed to be constructive. Discovering 'what
is' may not be the same as designing: what can be .
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