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Thinking Hat Focus Insights

• Available data • Past trends • Gaps in the data

• Intuition • Gut reaction • Emotion

• The pessimistic viewpoint

• Why might it NOT work?

• The optimistic

viewpoint

• Creativity • Other ways of

doing things

• Process control

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Six Thinking Hats was developed by Edward de Bono in his book “Six Thinking Hats”, originally published in 1985 by Little, Brown and Company.

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