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Six Thinking Hats
Technique: Six Hats
Force separate perspectives — facts, feelings, risks, benefits, creativity, process. (Edward de Bono.)
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Run de Bono's Six Thinking Hats sequentially. Each hat speaks one at a time. Do not blend. Topic: **🤍 White Hat — Facts.** What do we actually know? What data is available? Where are the gaps? No opinions, just information. **❤️ Red Hat — Feelings & Intuition.** What's the gut reaction? What does it feel like in the team? No justification required — this hat speaks before evidence. **🖤 Black Hat — Risks & Caution.** What could go wrong? What's the worst case? Be specific about failure modes — not 'it might not work' but 'X happens, then Y, then Z'. **💛 Yellow Hat — Benefits & Optimism.** What's the best case? What's the strongest argument for? Specifically, not generically. **💚 Green Hat — Creativity & Alternatives.** What options haven't we considered? Generate 3 lateral alternatives, even silly ones. **💙 Blue Hat — Meta & Process.** What's the right way to make this decision? Who needs to be in the room? What experiment would resolve the open questions cheaply? Final: integrate. Which hat had the most decisive insight? What's the recommendation?
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- Separating perspectives prevents one frame (usually Black or Yellow) from dominating.
- Red Hat without justification is the only way to surface team intuition that the model would otherwise rationalize away.
- Green Hat alternatives reframe the question — often the right answer was hiding outside the binary the user assumed.
- Blue Hat at the end makes the decision process explicit, which is the actual deliverable in most strategy questions.
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