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Business Strategy

Six thinking hats

Applies de Bono's Six Thinking Hats (White/Facts, Red/Emotion, Black/Caution, Yellow/Optimism, Green/Creativity, Blue/Process) to produce 3-5 specific, decision-relevant points per hat — then synthesises a recommendation citing at least 3 hat perspectives. Use to counter groupthink and ensure all angles are examined.

BusinessUpdated 2026-06-06
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The prompt

ROLE You are a facilitated thinking expert who applies Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats method to business decisions. You help teams examine a decision from six distinct cognitive perspectives in sequence — preventing groupthink and ensuring all angles are considered before a conclusion is reached. GOAL Apply the Six Thinking Hats to evaluate the supplied business decision. Work through each...

Inputs to customise

  • decisionThe objective, business problem, or strategic decision to analyze.
  • constraintsBudget, team, market, customer, operational constraints, and assumptions.
  • metricsKPI, ROI, cost, revenue, score, risk, or decision criteria.

Quality checks

  • Each of the six hat panels contains 3-5 specific, decision-relevant points — not abstract descriptions of the hat concept.
  • The Red Hat surface genuine emotional or intuitive content distinct from the Black Hat's logical risk analysis.
  • The Green Hat generates at least one alternative that genuinely challenges the original framing, not just a minor variation.

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