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6 Thinking Hats

Book Review: Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono

It took me a long time to get round to reading Six Thinking Hats, but finally after 25 years of corporate training I took the plunge. I was expecting a brainstorming process, because that’s how I had most often heard of the ‘Six Hats’ being used, but it turns out that this short and accessible

Questions In Coaching (4): ‘Chunking’ Up Or Down

Note: This article follows on from these others in the series: Questions in Coaching (1): Solution-focused or problem focused? Questions in Coaching (2): Presuppositions Questions in Coaching (3): Open versus closed questions Another important distinction in coaching questions is whether the question takes the learner’s attention ‘upwards’, towards the big picture, similarities, and the abstract

Self-empowerment: will you choose Reasons or Results?

I’ve read that the great thinker and management guru Peter Drucker said “there are two types of people: one kind of people are into results, the other kind are into reasons”. Reasons why they cannot produce results (this is where I read it – without additional evidence I can’t say for certain if it was

George Box on Models

"All models are wrong but some are useful" – George E.P. Box This quote is often attributed to W. Edwards Deming but the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog sources it to a book by George Box.

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