Edward De Bono - Six Thinking Hats.pdf

In one meeting of western style, the participants feel having his already points of view, and. in
many cases, the conclusion that want that the others accept. The meeting consists, therefore, in
discussing the diferent points from Vista to see which survives the critics and which obtains more
adhesions.
The ideas initials undergo modifications and improvements. But everything tends to be question
of "to carve marble"; that is to say, to begin with a great block and to go carving it until
obtaining the end item.
It is dificult that the western ones include/understand that the Japanese participants they reunite
without preconceived ideas. The intention of the meeting is to listen. Why there is then no a total
and unproductive silence? Because each participant, when he corresponds to him, puts the white
hat and gives fragment of neutral information. The map is completed in gradual form. He becomes
richer to think and detailed. Once finished, the route is obvious for all. I am not suggesting this
process happens and it is completed in only a
meeting. It can last weeks and months, include many meetings.
The important thing it is that nobody proposes a preconceived idea. The information is ofered
with white hat. This information is organized little by little in an idea. participants observe how she
is happening this.
The notion western it is that the ideas are chiselled to blow of arguments.
The notion Japanese it is that the ideas surgen as seeds and small buds to which later it is
nourished and it is allowed that they grow and they take form.
The previous one it is a somewhat idealizada version of the resistance between the western
discussion and Japanese way to present/display information. My intention is the one to show
here contrast, the one not to follow to which they think that all the Japanese is wonderful and it
would have to be imitated.
We cannot to change the cultures. For that reason we needed mechanism that it allows us to avoid
our custom to discuss. The roll of the white hat does exactly this. When all they use it during a
meeting, the roll of White hat can imply:
"We act as if we were Japanese in a Japanese meeting ".
In order to do of a way I practice this class of changes, we needed artificial resources and
modismos or expressions like the white hat to think. The exhortation and explanation has little
practical value.
(I do not want to explain here why the Japanese are not more inventive. The invention can to
require a culture based on the ego, with mentally bloody individuals able to insist on an idea that
seems foolish to everybody. We can to obtain it of a way more practitioner with the deliberate
provocations of lateral thought, of which I also speak elsewhere and in the section
corresponding to the thought of green hat.)