Proutist Economic Development Six Hats Thinking

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Proutist Economic DevelopmentSix Hats Thinking

• Dr. Michael Towsey

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Traditional Problem in Meetings

• Someone presents a new idea.
• Others think of the problems with it.
• Another person with an idea keeps quiet does
  not want to be ridiculed.
• Creative thinking is stifled.

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Six Hats Thinking

• Invented by Edward de Bono, world famous author
  of many books on creative and lateral thinking.
• Described in Serious Creativity  
• The idea of six hats thinking is to avoid
  traditional western style of argumentation where
  people take opposing sides of an argument.
• Recognises six styles of thinking.
• Object to manage the six styles to enhance
  creative outcomes.

Edward de Bono
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White Hat Thinking

• Neutral in an argument.
• Concerned with data and information
• What information do we have here?
• What information is missing?
• What information would we like to have?
• How are we going to get the information?

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Red Hat Thinking

• Fire and warm.
• Has to do with feelings and emotions, intuition,
  hunches
• What I feel about this project is
• My gut feeling is that this proposal will
• My intuition tells me that prices will

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Black Hat Thinking

• The stern judge or parent.
• Comes down heavily on wrong doers.
• Is critical.
• Advises caution and care
• The regulations do not permit us to do that.
• We do not have the production capacity to meet
  that order.
• When we raised the price, sales dropped off.
• He has no experience to do that job.

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Yellow Hat Thinking

• Sunshine and optimism.
• Positive outlook - thinks how to make a plan
  work.
• Looks at the benefits of a plan or project
• This plan can work if we start here ...
• That is a good idea after we have ...

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Green Hat Thinking

• Lush vegetation and growth.
• Creative thinking, new ideas, provocation,
  alternatives and hypotheticals
• We need some new ideas here.
• We are stuck, does any one have another idea.
• Could we do this work more efficiently if
• Could there be another reason why this is
  happening

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Blue Hat Thinking

• Think to the sky and overview.
• Looks at the process, how something is being
  done.
• Asks for summaries and offers summaries.
• Normally the organiser of a meeting.
• Sets the agenda for which thinking hat to wear
• We have spent much too long on this unimportant
  point.
• I suggest we try some green hat thinking to get
  new ideas.

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Cereal consumption 1999 - Venezuela

• Total domestic production 2.16 million Mt
• Total exports 0.04 0.06 million Mt
• Total imports 2.16 million Mt

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The Problem

• How can Venezuela become self-sufficient in the
  cereals that it needs?
• The goal Food Sovereignty.
• Use Six Hats Thinking to come to proposals and
  solutions ...

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The Six Thinking Hats

• White hat neutral, information
• Red Hat feelings, intuitions, hunches
• Black Hat cautious, regulations, legalities
• Yellow Hat positive, optimistic
• Green Hat creative, original, unrestrained
• Blue Hat processes, organises, summarises