Idea Mapping

For those of you in the Idea Mapping and Mind Mapping worlds, the names Vanda North and Richard Israel are probably familiar to you. They joined forces and have written a new book titled “Mind Chi” published by Wiley — the same publisher who published Idea Mapping.
Here’s a brief description of the book: “When your [...]

Looking for that perfect gift for a special person in your life? Do you have someone in your life who is overwhelmed with information, their job, managing projects, organizing their thinking, planning, studying, remembering, developing and delivering presentations, or generally bored with how they take notes in meetings or in classes. Do you know anyone [...]

Billy Waters from Ireland first contributed to this blog April 3, 2008. Today he is sharing his second idea mapping example which is a summary of the book titled “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss.  To see more of Billy’s examples check out his Flickr Photostream and Evernote for more book summaries and Evernote for [...]

In recent webinars and workshops I’ve mentioned a book that is nothing but symbols that you can draw into your idea maps. It’s the Widget Rebus Symbols Glossary. It’s not sold on Amazon, and I forgot how hard it was to find. I found it from david(at)teachgrid(dot)com. Above is a branch from the recommended reading [...]

Orbiting the Giant Hairball is a book written by Gordon MacKenzie and it is featured in the “Favorites” section of my new bookstore. Megan Clark is a high-level leader at a large automotive company in southeastern Michigan.  We met in 1998 when she brought me in to teach the first of many classes at her [...]

Kaizad Irani, Certified Idea Mapping Instructor, is back again with one of his masterpieces.  Kaizad Irani is the Program Director for Horticulture and Landscape Design at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. All of his contributions have been outstanding. Search this blog on “kaizad” and see more of his beautiful idea maps.
This is one of his [...]

Welcome to the posting that celebrates the 100th idea mapping contribution. This is Luciano Passuello’s 5th book summary that he has shared with us. (Search on “Luciano” in this blog to see his other 4 summaries.) As usual his maps can get very large so this is the folded version. This version as well as [...]

My dear friend Marty Zimmerman has co-authored a second book titled “Speaking of Success” with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, and Jack Canfield. Marty is a top leadership development consultant, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, a Marine Corps veteran, and an experienced business executive and leadership development coach. Marty has passionately served over 1,600 [...]

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is a book written by T. Harv Aker. This idea map was created by Debbie Edwards Miller after she attended the 2-day workshop “Idea Mapping: A Learning Workshop” that was held at ACH (Automotive Components Holding, LLC). It summarizes the content of the book. The photo I took of [...]

My colleague Michael Gelb is the author of Innovate Like Edison and many other books. He has just announced a special offer available to past graduates of the Idea Mapping (previously titled Mind Mapping) certification courses taught by Vanda North or myself. For each graduate he will reduce his “Creativity and Leadership Academy Certification” [...]