Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

Use these tools to find the perfect visual setup for your next brainstorming session.

Collecting and organizing ideas is a key first step to undertaking any task. When you’re planning a new product, making a decision, organizing an event or solving a problem you’ll be full of ideas, ...

Mind mapping is a great way to add structure to brainstorming sessions and visualize your ideas. Check out the applications your fellow readers use to do their best brainstorming. Update: This list is ...

Mind Mapping is a creative exercise that starts when you pen down that one big idea or theme. This big idea is like the trunk of a tree, each new idea is a new branch, and each sub-idea is a smaller ...

All this week, I’ve been talking about how amazingly useful mind-mapping is for a variety of creative and business tasks. In my last post, I looked at a few of the best mind-mapping tools for Windows.

As a project manager, you probably live in charts: Gantt charts, Kanban walls, shared calendars, process diagrams, org charts, and so on. Each is useful in its own way for capturing what’s going on in ...

Breaking down key concepts and developing them into functioning ideas is crucial for business success. With the advent of technology, this process has become overly complex and time-consuming. Over 80 ...