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Dr. Edward de Bono is regarded as the leading
international authority in the teaching of thinking as a
skill. With Six Thinking Hats, he has written an
easy-to-follow book that will do for thinking what the One
Minute Manager did for management.
"Thinking often proceeds as drift and
waffle and reaction," writes de Bono. In Six Thinking
Hats the author presents a simple but effective way to become
a better thinker. He separates thinking into six distinct
modes, identified with six colored "thinking hats":
WHITE: facts, figures, and objective information
RED: emotions and feelings
BLACK: logical negative thoughts
YELLOW: positive constructive thoughts
GREEN: creativity and new ideas
BLUE: control of the other hats and thinking
steps
"Putting on" a hat focuses thinking;
"switching" hats redirects thinking. With the
different parts of the thinking process thus clearly defined,
discussions can be better focused and more productive.
Using real-life situations as examples,
Dr. de Bono creates scenarios that show how the effective
use of "thinking hats" can:
- focus thinking more clearly
- lead to more creative thinking
- improve communication and thus decision-making
Dr. de Bono's concepts are applied by some
of the world's largest corporations. Six Thinking hats clearly
illustrates why they have found his ideas essential for
their management techniques.
Dr. Edward de Bono is regarded as the
leading international authority in the field of conceptual
thinking and also the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.
He originated the concept of "lateral thinking,"
which is now officially recognized in the Oxford English
Dictionary -- and which contributed to the success of the
1984 Olympic games. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and
has held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford,
Cambridge, London, and Harvard.
He has written twenty-seven books, which
have been translated into twenty languages. These include:
Opportunities;
Lateral Thinking for Management;
Future Positive;
Atlas of Management Thinking;
Wordpower;
Children Solve Problems;
Tactics:
The Art and Science of Success;
Conflicts: A Better Way to Resolve
Them. He has also made a ten-part
BBC series called "De Bono's Thinking Course"
and two other television series.
Dr. de Bono's instruction in thinking
has been sought by many of the largest corporations in USA,
Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. These include:
IBM, Exxon, Shell, BP, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Prudential,
General Foods, Bell Telephone, Northern Telecom, Monsanto,
DuPont, and ICI. He has given seminars all over the world,
from Helsinki to Buenos Aires, from Toronto to Tokyo.
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