Edward de Bono teaches you how to run better meetings and make better decisions‎.‎ Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives‎,‎ but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time‎.‎ In ‎"‎Six Thinking Hats‎"‎‎,‎ Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick‎,‎ decisive results every time‎.‎ The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain‎'‎s different modes of thinking‎.‎ The intelligence‎,‎ experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly‎.‎ These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact‎.‎ They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity‎.‎YOUR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS DEPENDS ON HOW WELL YOU THINK Six Thinking Hats can help you think better‎-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas‎.‎ It is an approach that thousands of business managers‎,‎ educators‎,‎ and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success‎.‎ ‎"‎The main difficulty of thinking is confusion‎,‎‎"‎ writes Edward de Bono‎,‎ long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill‎.‎ ‎"‎We try to do too much at once‎.‎ Emotions‎,‎ information‎,‎ logic‎,‎ hope‎,‎ and creativity all crowd in on us‎.‎ It is like juggling with too many balls‎.‎‎"‎ The solution‎?‎ De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his ‎"‎six thinking hats‎"‎‎:‎ * WHITE HAT‎:‎ neutral and objective‎,‎ concerned with facts and figures * RED HAT‎:‎ the emotional view * BLACK HAT‎:‎ careful and cautious‎,‎ the ‎"‎devil‎'‎s advocate‎"‎ hat * YELLOW HAT‎:‎ sunny and positive * GREEN HAT‎:‎ associated with fertile growth‎,‎ creativity‎,‎ and new ideas * BLUE HAT‎:‎ cool‎,‎ the color of the sky‎,‎ above everything else‎-the organizing hat Through case studies and real‎-life examples‎,‎ Dr‎.‎ de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker‎.‎ He offers a powerfully simple tool that you‎-and your business‎,‎ whether it‎'‎s a start‎-up or a major corporation‎-can use to create a climate of clearer thinking‎,‎ improved communication‎,‎ and greater creativity‎.‎ His book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions‎,‎ in business or in life‎.‎