tendency of a group to conform to ideas simply because the general sense of the group has moved in a particular direction and members of the group feel committed to continue in the same unchallenged line of thought.” Consequently it is the practice of thinking and making decisions in a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility. Groupthink is an occurrence where by a group comes to a unanimous decision about a possible action despite the existence of facts that points to another
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BOOK TITLE : SIX THINKING HATS AUTHOR : EDWARD DE BONO In this book the author introduces a way of how to think. He introduces the concept of parallel thinking. He says that the enemy of thought is its complexity, which leads to confusion. When the thoughts are clear and simple, it is easy to make decisions. The concept of six hats is very simple to understand and use. In ordinary, unstructured thinking this process is unfocused; the thinker leaps from critical thinking to neutrality to optimism
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The Six Hats provides another way.” - (extract from the book) Six Think Hats provides us with an entirely different approach of thinking. The author introduces the art of “parallel thinking”. Communication, decision making, brain-storming, meetings are made a whole lot easier and effective with the Six Thinking Hats method. Six Thinking Hats is a 177 page book with 43 chapters. The chapters are organized into six major sections, which focus on the functions of six different hats. The
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use the Six Thinking Hats technique to scrutinize our ideas and arrive at the best decision for the nation of Kava and its people. Six Thinking Hats is a decision making process, developed by Edward de Bono, which allows us to explore different points of view about difficult challenges (The de Bono Group LLC ). Seeing ideas from differing points is a sound strategy to follow when tackling complex issues. The Value Based Management (2010) website states that the Six Thinking Hats, STH, technique
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SIX HATS THINKING: KRISHNAKUMAR NALLU 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
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strategy called Six Hats. The concept behind Six Hats is each employee wears a different "hat" (role) in the team. Each of the Six Thinking Hats represents a different direction or type of thinking, which is identified by a color (Application of Six Thinking Hats in Education, 2011) : * White for facts and data * Black for difficulties and problems * Red for feelings and gut instinct * Green for creativity * Yellow for value and benefits * Blue for thinking process With the exception
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Edward de Bono also known as the father of lateral thinking and creativity came up with the six thinking hats system so that organisations can be more productive, focused, and mindfully involved. The six hats were coloured: * White * Yellow * Black * Red * Green * Blue White Facts (also known as white paper) - The people under the white hat are required to retrieve all of the facts that may be needed this includes all the data and information. They are also required to
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implement critical thinking and decision making strategies among other resources. There are a lot of details to consider in regards to this decision, such as the value of the remaining steel, the amount of steel rings on hand, the cost of the industrial machines, and how much money would be needed to produce the plastic rings inclusive of the necessary tools and equipment. With gathering all the necessary information Lawrence would be using the white hat from the Six Thinking Hats process, an important
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requested the meeting. She had been in this position for over five years and supervised primarily with a red hat, addressing most issues based on her emotions. (deBono, 1999) I do see the benefit of having this hat on in certain situations, but not with this issue. The manager was too close to the client and issue to see beyond her emotions. In retrospect, I believe I wore several hats during that meeting. I presented the plain facts to the Manager and Director, providing the data that I requested
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staffs in the office are so distressed due to the lack of oil to supply the paying customer. So during meetings we always sit and discuss the issues involved. The best way to manage the stress and problems are by using the six thinking hats by Edward de Bono. By using the white hat which is by running through facts we can learn that in order to produce oil and sell it to the market we first need crude oil. And from the available facts we also know that there is 2 trillion barrels of oil available in
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