Have you ever tried to read something really important while on the train and being constantly distracted by the noises around you? Do you find yourself constantly looking around (being distracted) while reading that urgent report in a cafe? Choosing
Memory is a skill that we can all learn. All is takes is a bit of focus and time to keep working on improving your memory. Remembering someone's name, key facts for an exam or what you need to accomplish
I just came across a poster when sorting through my large art folio/bag. I wanted to share it with you as we often think that things have changed, that things are bad just now and it is hard to find
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
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
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
