Category Archives: productivity

The art of briefings

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

After the presentation of the “Briefing boek!!”, a book about briefings (having a mind map made by me  as briefing in a crisis), I made this mind map using the new iMindmap Freedom (see mind map on the right) and … Continue reading →

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Not smart: announcing your goals

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

Mind Map © Hans Buskes If you announce your goals, it’s more difficult to achieve them. Interesting TED talk by Derek Sivers. He’s talking about personal goals, but doesn’t this logic apply to business goals as well?

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Mental map mind map apps for iPad

Posted on February 18, 2012 by

Mental Map © Hans Buskes Chuck Frey made a visual analysis of available mind maps apps for the iPad and concludes that ” there are many developers fighting for the lowest end of the market” and that there are not … Continue reading →

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How to make a perfect mind map

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Mindmap © Hans Buskes How to make a perfect mind map | mastermindmaps: Well done! Excellent mindmap to discuss about creating a mindmap…. bit.ly/AFnk0c — Dean Brandon (@deanwbrandon) January 26, 2012

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Making graphs (2): Dylan’s productivity

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

How to read the graph? Numbers on the x-axis refer to a full decade. So ’90 refers to the period 1990-1999. On the line ‘number of concerts’ the corresponding number on the y-axis is 1115. The last present decade has … Continue reading →

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The tree of business: uses of mind mapping

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

Mindmap © Hans Buskes The tree of life is the ancient precursor of mind mapping. It has been used already in the Middle Ages to interpret complex matters, from theological to scientific subjects. This Tree of business, the applications of … Continue reading →

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TEDxDelft: counting on spreadsheets? Don’t

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Mindmap © Hans Buskes

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Time mapping

Posted on July 30, 2011 by
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New way of working: go atomic

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

I was inspired to make this mind map reading a blog about mind mapping being a cornerstone for the new way of working (for Dutch readers: click here). I don’t think it is. Organisations adopting the new way of working … Continue reading →

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Kill three birds with one stone

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

One great application of mind mapping is planning. This mind map I used to visualize what I was going to write about in my book (in Dutch but anybody can grasp the idea of using it for writing a book) … Continue reading →

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