Six Thinking Hats review

Six Thinking hats

author:Edward De Bono

Contents

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1.Introduction
2.Six Hats,Six Colours
3.Using Hats

The White Hat

4.The White Hat:Facts and Figures
5.White Hat:Whose fact is it?
6.White Hat Thinking :Japanese style input
7.White Hat Thinking :Facts ,Truth and Philosophers
8.White Hat Thinking :Who puts on that hat?
9.Summary of White Hat Thinking

The Red Hat
10.The Red Hat:Emotions and Feelings
11. Red Hat Thinking :The place of emotions in Thinking
12. Red Hat Thinking :Intuitions and Hunches
13. Red Hat Thinking :Moment to Moment
14. Red Hat Thinking :The Use of Emotions
15. Red Hat Thinking :The language of Emotions
16.Summary of Red Hat Thinking

The Black Hat
17.The Black Hat:Cautious and Careful
18. Black Hat Thinking:Content and Process
19. Black Hat Thinking:The Past and The Future
20. Black Hat Thinking:The problem of Overuse
21.Summary of Black Hat Thinking

The Yellow Hat
22.The Yellow Hat:Speculative Positive
23. Yellow Hat Thinking :The Positive Spectrum
24. Yellow Hat Thinking :Reasons and Logical Support
25. Yellow Hat Thinking :Constructive Thinking
26. Yellow Hat Thinking :Speculation
27. Yellow Hat Thinking :Relation to creativity
28.Summary of Yellow Hat Thinking

The Green Hat
29.The Green Hat:Creative Thinking
30. Green Hat Thinking :Lateral Thinking
31. Green Hat Thinking :Movement instead of Judgement
32. Green Hat Thinking :The need for provocation
33. Green Hat Thinking :The alternatives
34. Green Hat Thinking :Personality and Skill
35. Green Hat Thinking :What happens to the ideas
36.Summary of Green Hat Thinking

The Blue Hat
37.The Blue Hat:Control of Thinking
38. Blue Hat Thinking :Focus
39. Blue Hat Thinking :Program Design
40. Blue Hat Thinking :Summaries and Conclusions
41. Blue Hat Thinking :Control and Monitoring
42.Summary of Blue Hat Thinking

43.Benefits of The Six Hats Method

Conclusion.

Size:177 pages

about author:
Edward De bono was faculty at Oxford university.
He is well known as a faculty for teaching Thinking as a skill.He penned 62 books and his books translated into 37 languages.Dr bono has been invited by 52 countries to lecture on this topic.His approaches are followed by so many multi national companies like IBM,ABB ,Shell,Ericsson and MC Kinsey.his works are adopted by so many schools through out world.


Six Thinking hats Review

Concept of the book is how to change the way of thinking so that we can make better decisions in personal life and even in professional life.author is well known for this topic.talking about book,very simple language is used and any one can easily understand what author is saying.book is very well organized .according to author thinking process is not an art ,it is science anyone can easily master it.according to my experience ,I used to worry about my inability of decision making.I have read this book and implemented the six thinking hats and now I am able to make any decision effectively and that too with in short time.I too believe anyone can easily make great decisions by implementing this approach.all corporations can implement this process to reduce their meeting durations and can achieve great productivity within short time.coming to concept,thinking process is divided into six categories and they are named with six different colored hats.here hat represents a role or a category of thinking process.namely six categories are
1.white hat thinking
2.red hat thinking
3.black hat thinking
4.yellow hat thinking
5.Green Hat thinking
6.Blue Hat Thinking
de bono says every thinking process has it's own meaning and purpose and one coloured hat thinking should not be mixed with another.all of them will come in a order.white hat thinking is Information Thinking,Red hat Thinking is emotional thinking,Black hat thinking is cautious Thinking,Yellow hat thinking is positive thinking ,green hat thinking is creative thinking and blue hat thinking is a kind of thinking which will control all of the above.
white hat thinking is all about data we should have data any thing before we start thinking about it.
for instance ,if we have a plan of watching movie,white hat thinking says we should know how many moview halls are there around us,what are the show timings,what are ticket prices and how far are they to us?.
That is white hat thinking.red hat thinking represents emotions of the situation.He says that red hat thinking is about emotions we should not mix this with any other hat thinking.if we mix ,we will never be able to decide the good thing.
Black hat thinking talks about problems of the situation.if we have to go to movie.in black hat thinking we will analyze all the problems for that .like whether we have sufficient money,sufficient time and whether we have desired movie on halls.we categorize problems into two.problems which we can overcome and problem which we cannot over come.
if we have money problem,we can not watch movie and if we do not desired movie ,we can watch some other movie as we have already decided to watch a movie.if we have a problem which we can not over come .we should stop thinking.so that we can save lot of time for other things.If we have problem which we can overcome Yellow hat thinking says we should be positive about that to achieve and green hat thinking suggests ideas to solve the same.and Blue Hat thinking specifies in which order we have to think.standard way is we should start with red hat thinking becuase emotions are important to achieve anything .later white hat thinking should come in with information.after that black hat thinking should come in with problems if problems are not solvable we have to stop thinking.other wise we have to proceed with yellow hat thinking and finally green hat thinking should come in.I like this book most.this book is so precise and powerful.simple techniques to use.so many people think book is redundant but I feel that is author style of writing because of which the concept has reached so many people.

other books by author:

1.I am right and Your are wrong
2.Lateral thinking.
3.Teach your child how to think.

Rich dad,Poor dad review

name : rich dad,poor dad what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not.

authors : robert t. kiyosaki and sharon lechter

pages : 266

contents

introduction( there is a need)

1 . rich dad,poor dad

2 . the rich do not work for money

3 .why teach financial literacy

4 .mind your own business

5. the history of taxes and the power of corporations

6 .the rich invent money

7. work to learn--don't work for money

8. overcoming obstacles

getting started

9.getting started

10.still want more


epilogue

college educaton for $7000

about the author(s)

robert t. kiyosaki

he is business man ,investor,author and inventor of cash flow technologies inc and founder of several games, cash flow based.

sharon lechter

she is CPA,author and co-founder of the cashflowtechnologies inc.

overview

co-author sharon lechter says , in introduction , how she met the author robert t. kiyosaki and how they began working together.

author describes how the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and the middle do not teach.according to Robert's words ,the poor and
the middle always

think that their life will be secure if they get good grades in school and get good job in big company, which is not real.kiyosaki illustrates with examples , so many people
who got good grades in school and has got good job in big company are also struggling with financial problems because of lack of financial intelligence.
because financial intelligence is never taught in schools and in homes properly.all parents tell their kids "to get grades in schools and
goog job in big company, your life will be secure"but kids get grades ins school and good job in big company but they do struggle their life paying all bills and taxes
and unfortunately they too suggest their children to do something.this is continuous process which is called rat race in
author terms.author says all have to come out of this rat race,to do that everyone has to improve one's financial intelligence in order to become rich.
he explains how to come out of this rat race with examples of his two dads(rich dad and poor dad) rich dad is his friends dad
,he didn't complete his eight standard, but financially well settled,form whom he learns tips to improve his financial intelligence.
poor dad is his own dad,he completed his PHD degree ,got good job but he is financially struggling.