No hats were worn in the last two replies :) In order to sustain the suggestion of Vani, I copy, paste the Characteristics of Hats so that we do not forget them.
HATS and their characteristics White hat thinking focuses on the information available and needed. Black hat thinking examines the difficulties and problems associated with a topic. Yellow hat thinking focuses on benefits and values. Red hat thinking looks at a topic from the point of view of emotions, feelings and hunches. Green hat thinking requires imaginative, creative and lateral thinking about a topic. Blue hat thinking focuses on reflection, metacognition (thinking about the thinking that is required), and the need to manage the thinking process. ========== Lalitha gari suggestion comprises of Black/Blue Hat while Divya's is a Red Hat. (My classification may be true, may be false). Anyway, let me combine the both. Adopting an orphanage locally and letting ourselves understand the problems of administering a home, is good. Practically it is not that much feasible as well. Adopting a home is nothing but maintaining it. Only thing would be we will not implement any ideas but just gives an idea about regular administration. In my view, we need to concentrate more on Research rather than adopting one orphanage. We will be talking to people by visiting different Orphanages and we will ask them about the problems that they faced, how they overcame or how they managed etc., We will get this information from all the Orphanages that we visit and we can list them all and can understand/analyze them. We need not make our own mistakes to learn but we can learn from others mistakes as well. This is not to disrespect the suggestion. But what I feel is that we need not administer by ourselves to understand the problems. Our main focus is on a novel approach in bringing up the Children, building their Character etc., It is not just about maintaining a home. Self-Sustenance : (Without seed money we will not plunge into the project and the estimate of seed money would be after our research and based on different other factors - No. of Children, No. of Employees, Place where we will set up, facilities and infrastructure etc.,) We will have a support project, which is a small-scale industry and which would be our source of income for the Home. We will start the Small Scale Industry and we will employ people. Our Project Proposal should be in that direction. It is like setting up a home with an Industry. Our emphasis should be on the Research first rather than on adopting an orphanage. I think we are in the White Hat phase. Actual Topic of Discussion is: TMAD coming up with the unique project, which is a dream to many of its members, a home for the Children and Aged which is self sufficient and novel. We are in the White Hat phase of focusing on the information available and needed. Am I correct? with regards, Prasanthi.
