Black Hat
The Black Hat is the conservative hat focused on caution. Wearing the black hat allows you to consider your proposals critically and logically. The black hat is used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, or the system in use.
This hat asks:
What could be the problems difficulties?
What are the cautions and risks.
The black hat explains why things might not work but it always gives logical reasons.
Mistakes can be disastrous. So the black hat is very valuable. It is the most used hat and possibly the most useful hat. However, it is very easy to overuse the black hat. Caution, used too early in the problem solving process, can easily kill creative ideas with early negativity.
The Black Hat is the conservative hat focused on caution. Wearing the black hat allows you to consider your proposals critically and logically. The black hat is used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, or the system in use.
This hat asks:
What could be the problems difficulties?
What are the cautions and risks.
The black hat explains why things might not work but it always gives logical reasons.
Mistakes can be disastrous. So the black hat is very valuable. It is the most used hat and possibly the most useful hat. However, it is very easy to overuse the black hat. Caution, used too early in the problem solving process, can easily kill creative ideas with early negativity.