Six Hats Review

Homo sapiens are considered to be one of the blessed and unique multi cellular organisms in earth since we humans have innate and highly evolved trait of power to think.

But most of the time while working as a team a lot of conflict arises in decision making process to arrive at a at decision since thought process are not quite similar for any two individuals or a group of individuals.

Ed ward de bono stated that the emotions, the information, the logic, the hope and creativity suppresses our thinking process and we squander too much of time in mixed emotion of thoughts and finally we end up in a messy outcome.

So in order  to streamline our thinking process Edward de bono suggested “six thinking hats” each hat defines certain type of thinking and wearing each of these hats under various stages results in parallel thinking and as a team we become much more productive.

Six hats consists of which White hat which calls for facts, information; Red hats which takes into account of feelings and emotions; Black hat signifies caution and critical thinking; Yellow hat thinking insists on optimism and positive outcomes; Green hat focusing on creativity and innovation and finally the Blue Hat which ensures all the six thinking hats are observed and followed in the THINKING process.

The color of each hats itself has their own implied meaning ie, Red color symbolizes fury and emotions, White color a neutral color, being objective, Black color symbolizes negative and bad so as to identify negative aspects, and Green color symbolizes fresh green vegetables symbolizing creativity and new ideas, Yellow is auspicious and brings out optimism, and blue color representing blue sky which shows favor upon all other hats symbolizing organized thought process.

The advantages of these six hats are eradication of ego, streamlining our attention, thinking with established rules thereby every individuals thinking is accounted and improves productivity in decision making.