Idea Mapping

I met Siri Zimmerman when she was 8 years old. She was the daughter of one of my co-workers at EDS, Marty Zimmerman, who is now the author of three books. Siri (now 25) and I met for coffee this past weekend to discuss the possibility of me speaking at the upcoming conference she is […]

Teiji Nakano is the author of a book titled How to Increase Business Productivity with MindManager and it is available at Amazon.jp.  He is an expert in the use of MindManager and created this branding Idea Map as a gift to me. You gotta love the Mt. Fuji background. In the MindManager version he has […]

Wojtek Korsak is the owner and founder of Explorer-Consulting in Warsaw, Poland. We met face-to-face for the first time in November 2010 when he and his wife took the time to meet while I was teaching an Idea Mapping Workshop for EUROREG in Warsaw. Wojtek is a MindManager expert and consultant with a passion to […]

This standard activity in my Idea Mapping Workshops takes a different twist during my annual workshop in Poland. Normally each participant reads an article summarizing Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and then draws an idea map showing the key ideas from the document. The purpose of this activity is two-fold: 1. To […]

Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist Michael Deutch was drawing idea maps during a David Allen GTD seminar (author of Getting Things Done) he attended last week. Michael’s projects and priorities are captured in this visual representation. Thanks for sharing Michael!

I have had the privilege to teach an annual Idea Mapping Workshop for the Saline Leadership Institute (SLI) for 13 years now.  Regardless of the industry these leaders come from, the Idea Mapping tool continues to help leaders return to their businesses and lives more productive, more creative and more organized. One of the challenges […]

This is the third year in a row that I was invited to come to Warsaw by Dr. Karol Olejniczak who is an Assistant Professor at the  University of Warsaw. He runs a program called EUROREG — an Academy of Evaluation which is financed and sponsored by Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the European […]

Planning for a new baby can be overwhelming, but this Idea Map has helped Wayne Chan get his arms around the many things he and his wife will need to prepare for. Last week I taught a 2-day public Idea Mapping Workshop at the Mindjet Offices in San Francisco. During one of the activities participants […]

We had a terrific experience during this week’s Idea Mapping Workshop held at the Mindjet offices in San Francisco! Here is the first round of photos for you to enjoy. The top photo features Ray Sheffield from Sheffield Estate Planning, Brett Robblee from Raytheon, Tim Cox from Wells Fargo and Wayne Chan from Mindjet.  Next […]

In the October 23, 2009 posting I first introduced readers of this blog to Dr. Tim Schweizer from Luther College in Decorah, IA. He attended one of my public Idea Mapping workshops in August of 2009 and has been experimenting using Idea Mapping with his college students in a variety of ways ever since. Search […]