As soon as we start school we are told to organise our thoughts in a linear style – top to bottom, line by line, left to right. With the advances in neuroscience, we now know that this is like teaching
Well 2012 is drawing to a close and it looks like the doomsday pessimists misread the Mayans, and 2013 approaches full of challenges and opportunities, so we thought we’d take a little time to think back over the year that
My father told me a joke the other day that went like this. “An old man and his wife needed some white bread and milk, so the husband decided to go down to the store to buy some. His wife
This is a simple repost of a blog I did in April, as Tony Buzan and Jennifer Goddard's new book is now available. ----------------------- Jennifer and I just spent the last two days at our District Rotary Conference, hearing some remarkable
A good friend asked me a while ago about how he could develop better conceptual thinking skills in some of his staff members. After happily giving him a bit of advice he turned what I'd given him into a simple
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
The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report Beyond the boom: Australia’s productivity imperative finds that “one-off” factors—including favourable terms of trade and an investment surge—have driven half of the country’s recent growth, obscuring the truth about its overall economic health. The magnitude of Australia’s resource
Innovation is something that every organisation should be well on top of, and with the current debate on Australia's loss of productivity in recent years it is again time to think about what is actually happening. Business gurus tell us
Below is a message and invitation from MRS MANJU NAUTIYAL, Convener of the 7th International Innovation Day and Principal, of City Montessori School in Lucknow India that we are please to pass on to our contacts. It is an invitation to schools
An interesting element of testing people's memory is finding a culture free test. A couple of years ago the World Memory Sports Council (of which I am a member) decided to introduce a competition based on abstract images to replace
