He was born in Malta on 1933. Received a doctorate in psychology from Oxford University and a doctorate in medicine from Cambridge University. He has worked in Oxford University, London University, Harvard University and Cambridge University.
For the first time, Dr. Edward de Bono established the research of creative thinking on the basis of science, and he is an international authority in the field of thinking training. The European Innovation Association listed him as one of the 250 greatest contributors in human history. He has extensive influence in the world business community.
Debono is the founder of lateral thinking theory. Nowadays, as a part of language, the word "lateral thinking" has been included in Oxford English Dictionary and Longman Dictionary.
Dr debono wrote more than 50 books in his life, among which I was wrong about you was recommended by three Nobel Prize winners. From 65438 to 0990, he presided over the Nobel Prize winners' conference in Seoul, South Korea. The name debono has become a symbol of creativity and new thinking.
Debono's representative works Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking Method? It has been translated into 37 languages and sold in 54 countries, where it has been widely promoted and affirmed in the fields of commerce, education and politics. For a long time, debono Thought, as the decision-making guide of government, enterprises and individuals, has been recognized as the most effective training tool for innovative thinking. The International Thinking Conference awarded him the title of "pioneer" for his outstanding contribution to human thinking.
founder
Edward de Bono, Ph.D. in Psychology, Oxford University, M.D., Cambridge University. He has worked in Oxford University, London University, Harvard University and Cambridge University.
Edward de bono is the founder of horizontal thinking theory, and is recognized as a leader and authority in the field of creative and innovative thinking and attention guidance of thinking skills all over the world. For the first time in history, he established the research of creative thinking on the basis of science. Nowadays, as a part of language, the word "lateral thinking" has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary and Longman Dictionary, and has been promoted and affirmed in the political, business and educational circles of more than 50 countries around the world. He is famous for creating six thinking hats and tools to guide attention.
Dr. De Bono has written 67 works, which have been translated into 38 languages all over the world. Among them, I misjudged you was highly praised by three Nobel Prize winners. His students include four-year-old children and teenagers; And executives, Nobel Prize winners. The name edward de bono has become a symbol of creativity and new thinking, and his value even exceeds that of the Nobel Prize winner.
classify
The so-called six thinking hats refer to six different colors of hats to represent six different thinking modes. Anyone has the ability to use the following six basic thinking modes:
White thinking hat
White is neutral and objective. Wearing a white thinking hat, people just pay attention to facts and data.
Yellow thinking hat
Yellow represents value and affirmation. People wearing yellow thinking hats think positively and express optimistic, hopeful and constructive views.
Black thinking hat
Wearing a black thinking hat, people can criticize logically with negative, doubtful and questioning views, express negative views and find out logical errors.
Red thinking hat
Red is the color of emotion. Wearing a red thinking hat, people can express their emotions, and people can also express their intuition, feelings, hunches and other views.
Green thinking hat
Green stands for green grass and symbolizes vitality. The green thinking hat symbolizes creativity and imagination. It has the functions of creative thinking, brainstorming and different thinking.
Blue thinking hat
The blue thinking hat is responsible for controlling and regulating the thinking process. Be responsible for controlling the use order of various thinking caps, planning and managing the whole thinking process, and making conclusions.
Application description
The biggest misunderstanding of the understanding of six thinking hats is that thinking is divided into six different colors, but in fact, the key to the application of six thinking hats lies in the way users arrange the hats in order, that is, the process of organizing thinking. Only by mastering the process of knitting thinking can we really master the application method of six thinking hats, otherwise people will often think that this tool is not practical. But it is difficult to achieve the ideal effect just by reading.
The order of hats is very important. We can imagine that a person needs to plan his structural outline in advance when writing an article so as not to be confused. Before compiling a large program, a programmer needs to design the module flow of the whole program. The same is true of thinking. Six thinking hats not only define different types of thinking, but also define the influence of the process structure of thinking on the result of thinking. Most people think that six thinking hats are tools for teamwork, but in fact, six thinking hats are also of great value to personal application.
Suppose a person needs to consider a task plan, then he has two situations that he is most unwilling to face. One is a blank in my mind, and I don't know where to start. The other is the congestion caused by the confusion and too many thoughts in his mind. Six thinking hats can help him design a thinking outline and think in a certain order. As far as the practice of this thinking tool is concerned, it will make most people feel clearer and more agile.
In team application, the biggest application occasion is the meeting, especially the discussion meeting here, because this kind of meeting is a platform for real collision and docking of thinking and viewpoints, and it is often not because of some lack of external skills, but because we fundamentally disagree with other people's views. In this case, six thinking hats become a particularly effective communication framework. Everyone should organize their thoughts and speeches according to the framework system under the guidance of Blue Hat, which can not only effectively avoid conflicts, but also discuss a topic more fully and thoroughly. Therefore, the six thinking hats in conference application can not only shorten the meeting time, but also strengthen the depth of discussion.
In addition, six thinking hats can also be used as a framework for written communication, such as managing e-mail with the structure of six thinking hats, organizing reports and reviewing documents with the framework structure of six thinking hats, and so on. In addition to using six thinking hats in work and study, using six thinking hats in family life can often achieve some special effects.
In most teams, team members are forced to accept the established thinking mode of the team, which limits the cooperation between individuals and teams and cannot effectively solve some problems. Using the six-hat thinking model, team members are no longer limited to a single thinking model, and the thinking hat represents the role classification, which is a kind of thinking demand, not the actor himself. The six thinking roles represented by the six thinking hats cover almost the whole process of thinking, which can not only effectively support individual behavior, but also support mutual stimulation in group discussion.
Practical application steps of a typical team with six thinking hats;
1, state the facts of the problem (white hat) 2, put forward suggestions on how to solve the problem (green hat) 3, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the suggestions: list the advantages (yellow hat); List the shortcomings (black hat) 4. Make an intuitive judgment on various options (red hat) 5. Summarize the statement and get the plan (blue hat) [edit]
Application process
The following are the typical application steps of the six thinking hats in the meeting:
1, stating the problem (white hat);
2, put forward the method to solve the problem (green hat);
3. Evaluate the advantages of the scheme (yellow hat);
4. List the shortcomings of the scheme (black hat);
5. Make an intuitive judgment on the scheme (red hat);
6. Summarize the statement and make a decision (Blue Hat).
practical application
The green hat runs counter to police tactical unit, because the green thinking hat is very free and active, and can be unconstrained. The blue thinking hat aims to control and guide the direction of the thinking process.
First, the green thinking hat.
Imagine grass, trees, vegetables and growth. Imagine positive growth and gains. Imagine germination and branching.
A cuckold is an active hat.
Green hats are used for creative thinking. In fact, the cuckold husband contains the meaning of the word "creativity".
1. Creative thinking refers to bringing something or producing something, similar to constructive thinking. The green hat focuses on making suggestions.
2. Creative thinking means new ideas, new choices, new solutions and new inventions. The emphasis here is "new".
White hat lists information. Red hats allow us to express our feelings. Black hat and yellow hat handle logical judgment. Therefore, it is the turn of the green hat to take practical action, and the green hat must make suggestions.
When you are asked to wear a green hat, you should make suggestions and ideas. This is an active thinking, not just a passive reaction to things.
The five main uses of green hats are as follows:
1. Survey
put forward proposals
Look for other options
Put forward new ideas
stimulate sb's inspiration
Unlike yellow hats and black thinking hats, green thinking hats don't have to provide logical reasons for their suggestions or ideas, just put forward ideas for further testing.
1. Survey
White hat uses existing information to analyze the situation. The cuckold examines the situation with ideas, concepts, suggestions and possibilities.
put forward proposals
The cuckold is used to put forward various suggestions and opinions. These suggestions are not necessarily new ideas. They can be suggestions for action, solutions to problems and possible decisions. Wear a green hat, you can have all kinds of active thinking. When no one knows what to do, it's time to put on a cuckold and think.
Look for other options
If an explanation has been given, or an action plan has been discussed, then you can ask everyone to wear a cuckold husband to find further explanations and other options. What other possible explanations are there? What else can I do? Before taking action, the green hat aims to broaden our choices. As for evaluating these options, it is the task of the yellow hat and the black hat.
Put forward new ideas
Sometimes, we need new ideas. When the old methods no longer work, or there is no feasible way to solve the problem, it is necessary to think creatively or horizontally. This kind of thinking is the basic role played by the green hat. If you ask someone to think something green, you are asking him to go beyond the established scope and come up with new ideas. You can't ask others to be creative, but at least you can ask others to try. We should consciously use the lateral thinking skills introduced at the back of this book in order to generate new ideas.
stimulate sb's inspiration
Wearing a green hat, we can put forward all kinds of experimental ideas, although we don't know whether these ideas will work. We can also consciously put forward incentives, which are not necessarily useful ideas, but are only used to help us break away from the conventional thinking track and look at things from different angles. The skills of motivation will be introduced later in this book.
6. Action and vitality
The characteristics of green thinking hat are action and vitality. A painter stands in front of a blank canvas, and his most important thing is to start acting. This action may be to draw a sketch, or to sprinkle some paint on the canvas. When there is a blank, you need an idea. Blank situations need green thinking hats, and so do conformist or stagnant situations.
Second, the blue thinking hat.
Imagine the blue sky. The sky is high. If you fly in the sky, you can overlook everything. Wearing a police tactical unit means going beyond the thinking process: you are overlooking the whole thinking process. Police tactical unit is a reflection of thinking.
Police tactical unit means to review and summarize the thinking process. It controls the thinking process. Police tactical unit is like the conductor of a band. Put on the other five hats, we are all thinking about the thing itself, but put on the blue hat, we are thinking.
Police tactical unit contains the following points:
1. Where are we now?
2. What's the next step?
3. The process of thinking
summary
Observe and comment
People wearing blue hats will quit the thinking process in order to supervise and observe the whole thinking process.
1. Where are we now?
Where are we now?
What is the focus of the problem?
What else do we need to do?
These questions are aimed at clarifying what we are thinking at the moment. Are we wandering aimlessly or trying to do something?
2. What's the next step?
What should we do next (in our thinking process)?
The blue thinking hat may suggest wearing another hat to think, or make a summary, or clarify the key points of thinking. When it seems that people don't know what to do next, it is necessary to give guidance and advice. Maybe everyone has different views on what to do next, and then they need to make a decision. If everyone knows what to do next, then go straight to the next step.
3. The process of thinking
In addition to determining what to do next, police tactical unit can also be used to design the whole thinking process, that is, to make a timetable or use order for different thinking steps. This is usually done at the beginning of a meeting, but it can also be used at any time. The thinking program can cover the whole meeting process, or it can only be used for a project or part of a project. In some cases, the thinking program consists of six thinking caps in the order of use.
Police tactical unit was designed to treat thinking formally. Just as computer programmers design programs for computers, police tactical unit also programs the thinking process.
summary
At any point in the process of thinking, members who participate in thinking can put on police tactical unit and ask for a summary.
★ "Where are we now? How far have we come? Can you sum it up? "
This summary may bring you a sense of accomplishment, or it may show that everyone's thinking has been fruitless so far. Summarization also helps to clarify different views.
Observe and comment
The blue thinking hat transcends the thinking process and ignores what is happening. So the blue thinking hat is responsible for observing and commenting.
★ "It seems that so far, we have been arguing about the goal of the meeting."
★ "We had to consider several plans, but now we have only discussed one plan."
★ "I made a lot of red thinking hats this morning."
Police tactical unit's role is to make the thinker clearly aware of his own thinking behavior. Is thinking and behavior effective?
6. Wrong usage of blue thinking hat
In practice, in fact, many people are already using the blue thinking hat, but they just don't say it directly. However, it will be more effective to make it clear. You should avoid abusing police tactical unit. If you stop the meeting every few minutes and make a blue hat comment, it will easily annoy everyone, and it will be more effective to use it occasionally.
case analysis
As a thinking tool, six thinking hats have been set as teaching courses in the field of school education by the governments of more than 50 countries, including the United States, Japan, Britain and Australia. At the same time, it has also been adopted by many famous commercial organizations in the world as a general tool to create organizational synergy and creativity. These organizations include: Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Boeing, Panasonic, DuPont, McDonald's and so on. For example:
Siemens has 370,000 people studying debono's thinking course, and the product development time is reduced by 30%.
British Channel 4 TV said that through training, they created more new ideas in two days than in the past six months.
British Xerox reported that by using the skills and tools they learned, it took them less than a day to complete the work that used to take a week.
ABB Finland once spent 30 days discussing international projects, but today, by using parallel thinking, it only takes 2 days.
JPMorgan Chase reduced meeting time by 80% and changed their culture in Europe by using six thinking hats.
McDonald's Japan Company let employees participate in the thinking training of "six thinking hats" and achieved remarkable results-employees are more passionate, and frank communication reduces the negative effects of "black thinking hats".
In DuPont's Innovation Center, a special topic was set up to discuss how to change the company culture with debono's thinking tools. The "six thinking hats" are widely used in the company.
Through the training of six thinking hats, we can master:
How to guide the meeting to be more focused and efficient?
How to find opportunities where most people can only find problems?
How to look at this problem from a new and unusual perspective?
How to look at the problem from multiple angles
How to cultivate cooperative thinking
How to reduce opposition and judgmental thinking in interaction
How to take deliberate steps to solve problems and find opportunities?
How to create a dynamic and positive environment to win people's participation?
How to find an effective and innovative solution that is not noticed when solving problems?
An easy-to-use tool for companies to implement solutions.
Highly centralized and efficient meeting method
How to find opportunities where most people can only find problems?
How to find a new angle of a problem and find business opportunities?
Break down the problem into different levels of skills.
Cultivate the team's cooperative thinking ability
Ways to reduce confrontation in communication
How to create a dynamic and positive environment to win people's participation?
How to effectively improve creative ability
An easy way to realize the solution
executive capability
Six hats thinking is revolutionary, because it frees us from speculation, helps people to list all views side by side, and then find solutions.
Using the six hats method, we can sort out different aspects of thinking, instead of solving all problems at once. We can focus on risk factors, followed by benefits, then feelings and so on.
We can make a person put on a hat and adopt some kind of thinking, or take off his hat and end his thinking. The six-hat method enables us to simply and politely encourage thinkers to use equal energy in each thinking process, rather than sticking to one model.
Many multinational companies in the world have adopted the six-hat thinking. In 55 countries around the world, more than 6.5438+0.5 million people have successfully completed the seminar on six thinking hats.
Function and value:
1. This kind of thinking is different from critical, debating and antagonistic methods, but a constructive, designed and innovative thinking management tool.
2. It enables thinkers to overcome emotional contagion, get rid of helplessness and confusion of thinking, get rid of the shackles of habitual thinking, and think in a more efficient way.
3. The visualization of six-color hats makes it very easy for us to master complex thinking.
When you think the problem can't be solved, the "six thinking hats" will give you a brand-new opportunity.
5. Let different ideas and viewpoints be organized harmoniously. Avoid confrontation between people.
6. After careful consideration, I finally went to find the answer.
7. Don't be proud and one-sided. Six hats represent six thinking roles, covering almost the whole process of thinking, which can not only effectively support individual behavior, but also support mutual stimulation in group discussion.
User:
Six thinking hats have gone through the process from theory to curriculum development, which can be used in corporate meetings, decision-making, communication, reporting and even personal life. Many enterprises evaluate that the implementation of six thinking hats has improved corporate culture and greatly improved management efficiency.