It's well-known that many of the most successful people in the world are highly effective readers, that is, they read strategically with a clear purpose and focus. "President John F. Kennedy is perhaps the most famous speed reader. This is
Miss Smith Had It Almost Right when she said ‘study hard, so you don’t have to work hard’ When I was in school back in Canada a long time ago – walking five miles to school in the snow (in
A friend approached me recently with a problem and asked if I could help. "I was in an important meeting recently and in an hour I saw one person destroyed and the company lose a million dollar opportunity. "It
In recent months we’ve had an increasing number of requests from clients to facilitate strategic thinking sessions for them, most often with the senior leadership team, or to run some of our Critical & Creative Thinking workshops with managers as
Information Overload: A never ending story of stress? “I’m running a pretty successful business, but the amount of stuff I have to deal with means I work 15 hours a day.” “I’m in the office early and busy all day
Speed Read to a More Productive and Happier You by Henry Toi, Brain Capital Group, Singapore Increased reading speed is perhaps the most easily attainable improvement in personal skills. However few are aware of their need to increase their reading speed.
Managing Information Overload is without doubt one of the most important skills an individual can develop today. With the massive increase in information availability, and with it bombarding us every day, we see people and organisations struggling to maintain their performance
This well referenced academic research article will be of interest to those using Mind Maps in the Classroom. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2012) ISSN 1931-4744 @ Georgia Southern University
Innovation is Simple, but Not Easy! This is a lesson many people are now learning. Having studied continuous improvement, creative thinking and innovation since the early 1980s, having read dozens of books and hundreds of articles and papers on these
One of the most effective methods of self-development is to observe those who are already expert at what they do, and then model their behaviour. But where are the great leaders for us to model ourselves after? Sometimes they are
