The focusing of the sun's rays can melt the toughest of metals. In the same way, the focusing of the mental ability of many people on a problem can more easily solve that problem. Using the Six Hats method the discussion was concluded in forty-five minutes. From every side there are reports of how much quicker meetings become when the six hats are used. Meetings take half the time.
Meetings take a third or a quarter of the time.
Sometimes, as in the case of ABB, meetings take one-tenth of the time. In the United States, managers spend nearly 40 percent of their time in meetings. But that is not the case with parallel thinking. With parallel thinking, every thinker at every moment is looking in the same direction. The thoughts are laid out in parallel.