Six hats review

             Six thinking hats is a method where Edward de Bono focuses on ‘Parallel thinking’.  He introduced this method mainly to avoid the difficulties that are faced during meetings in a company.  Earlier, a meeting or a discussion takes a lot of time to arrive at a conclusion.  People in a meeting don’t know how to go about, so when one presents a thought the others started arguing about it and this took a lot of time.  With the introduction of this thinking hat process, every meeting or a discussion ended in just one – fourth of the time that it would normally take.

            Parallel thinking is a concept where everyone is made to look from a same point of view at one point of time.  This enabled people to come out with a variety of ideas.  If people were made to concentrate on a particular thing it increases their efficiency because arguments are reduced and if arguments are reduced people don’t have to respond to it and so their thinking will not be distracted.  Moreover, if everyone thinks in different directions in a meeting it creates confusion.  It is not that people are made to focus on one view alone.  At one point of time he thinks in one angle, and when all the ideas are collected, they are made to think in another angle.  This helps to clear his mind of other thoughts and focus on a particular view.

            Six thinking hats gives clear cut ideas to persons whether to focus on facts, emotions, strengths, weaknesses, creativity or control at one point of time.  This helped in synergy of thoughts, save a lot of time and reduces confusion.