"Six Thinking Hats" is a de Bono classic, used by businessmen worldwide to develop techniques of creative thinking in the boardroom. "The Six Hats" method aims to make the fullest use of everyone's intelligence, experience and information. De Bono has comprehensively updated his bestselling text for this new edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction: six hats, six colours. The white hat: the white hat - facts and figures; white hat thinking -whose fact is it? white hat thinking - Japanese-style input; white hat thinking - facts, truth and philosophers; white hat thinking - who puts on the hat? summary of white hat thinking. The red hat: the red hat - emotions and feelings; red hat thanking - the place of emotions in thinking; red hat thinking - intuition and hunches; red hat thinking - moment to moment; red hat thinking the use of emotions; red hat thinking the language of emotions; summary of red hat thinking. The black hat: the black hat - cautions and careful; black hat thinking - content and process; black hat thinking - the past and the future; black hat thinking the problem of overuse; summary of black hat thinking. The yellow hat: the yellow hat - speculative-positive; yellow hat thinking - the positive spectrum; yellow hat thinking - reasons and logical support; yellow hat thinking - constructive thinking; yellow hat thinking speculation; yellow hat thinking relation to creativity; summary of yellow hat thinking. The green hat: the green hat - creative thinking; green hat thinking - lateral thinking; green hat thinking -movement instead of judgement; green hat thinking - the need for provocation; green hat thinking -alternatives; green hat thinking - personality and skill; green hat thinking - what happens to the ideas? summary of green hat thinking. The blue hat: the blue hat - control of thinking; blue hat thinking - focus; blue hat thinking - program design; blue hat thinking -summaries and conclusions; blue hat thinking - control and monitoring; summary of blue hat thinking; benefits of the six hats methods.