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chaovalit
Director, Thailand
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Seventh Thinking Hat: Orange for Results
A potential seventh thinking hat could be an Orange Hat: Thinking of moving forwards towards concrete results in ways such as as:
- Climbing a ladder of successes
- SMART leadership
- Result-oriented.
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Using Six Hats to Stimulate Moving Forward Thinking
Moving forward thinking comes under the Green Hat - new ideas, concepts, opportunities, possibilities.
The real power of 6TH comes from using a sequence of hats. Here's a short sequence of hats that a smart leader could apply for a results-oriented session:
- BLUE - Why are we here, what is the process? Where do we want to go?
- WHITE - What information, data do we know? What don't we know?
- GREEN - In what ways might we achieve our goal?
- BLUE - Let's decide on next steps and who does what
This simple sequence would be sufficient to initiate action and mobilize people to begin moving forward.
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Results Orientation in Six Hats
Great suggestion, chaovalit!
@Gary Wong: I agree thinking about how to achieve results is primarily under the Green Hat. However the green hat is often focusing on creativity and ideas rather than on accomplishing hard, concrete, fast results. You can somewhat counter this by explicitly focusing the green hat on how results can be achieved through novel approaches
The Blue Hat also has a role to play in thinking result-oriented, as it is managing the process and that includes planning for results. But there are so many black things to look after.
Finally, all other hats can support a result orientation too by providing facts (white), weighing pros (yellow) and cons (black), and checking instincts (red).
Still I suspect there could be situations that justify a separate orange hat in a 6TH session, like when the green hat or the entire group is made up of visionaries and dreamers, who pay little or no attention at all to concrete results.
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