Replying to LO28976 --
Try Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono. De Bono suggests that thinking
can be categorized into 6 categories. Each style of thinking is
represented by a different color hat. Actual hats may be used or the
metaphor may be used without physical representations of the hats.
Meetings are run by insisting that all participants "put on" the same hat
at the same time. This gets people working together. De Bono likens it
to the difference in power between diffuse light and coherent laser light.
By explicitly cycling through the 6 hats as appropriate, all necessary
styles of thinking are covered. The six hats are white - facts, red -
emotions, green - creation, yellow - benefits, black - problems, and blue
- thinking about thinking. In most meetings not run using the six hats
methodology, the most common hat is the black hat. Someone suggests and
idea and it is immediately attacked on all sides. The black hat is a much
easier hat to wear than the green hat. People often disguise red hat
thinking as other styles of thinking. It is good to make the red hat
thinking explicit. De Bono claims that major corporations have greatly
shortened executive meetings using his techniques, so there's a chance it
might help with your fractious doctors.
>Does anyone know of a checklist or some such on how to discuss something,
>which they could each use?
--Jamie Nettles <jamien@infograph.com>
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