"Have 2-3 wins each week" and a few other pearls of wisdom
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| Photo credit: Jane Gianoutsos |
- Have 2-3 wins each week.
- Don't overstay your welcome.
- Deliver what you say you are going to deliver.
- Manage your stakeholders.
Book Review: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono is a very easy read and provides a good simple approach for exploring ideas and problems through thinking from different perspectives in a structured manner. There are six hats, each of which have different characteristics:
White Hat: facts, figures, informationRed Hat: emotions and feelings, hunch and intuitionBlack Hat: devil's advocate, negative judgementYellow Hat: optimism, positivityGreen Hat: creativityBlue Hat: controlling of the hats and thinking, orchestration
The idea of the hat is that a person will put on or be asked to put on a hat and to express a view from that perspective. This gets people thinking in different ways and since it is play-acting people are more willing to express views from under the security of the hat that otherwise may be left unsaid.
White Hat: facts, figures, informationRed Hat: emotions and feelings, hunch and intuitionBlack Hat: devil's advocate, negative judgementYellow Hat: optimism, positivityGreen Hat: creativityBlue Hat: controlling of the hats and thinking, orchestration
The idea of the hat is that a person will put on or be asked to put on a hat and to express a view from that perspective. This gets people thinking in different ways and since it is play-acting people are more willing to express views from under the security of the hat that otherwise may be left unsaid.
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