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• Five Ways to Jumpstart Your Organization’s Creative Process
  Published 20 April 2009
  Ideas make money, and thus we should make time for ideas . As valuable as brainstorming is, most of us don’t have the luxury of spending hour after hour sitting in meetings scrawling ideas down on scratchpads and whiteboards. Although we should always...
• Ideas Make Money. So Make Time for Ideas.
  Published 14 April 2009
  We all know that as a manager you are strapped with a finite amount of time to perform so many activities in a day, week, or month. In this unstable economy most managers are doubling their efforts due to a shrinking team and limited resources. As costly...
• Case Study: Studying Smarter with Mind Maps
  Published 21 October 2008
  This post is authored by a fellow SmartDraw employee, Oscar Gonzalez-Millan. During the day, I work full-time for SmartDraw.com as a member of the sales team. But at night, I work on pursuing my degree in law. The other day I was studying for my Civil...
• Scheduling Tasks with Project Charts
  Published 8 October 2008
  The first step to becoming a more efficient project manager is to decompose your project into small tasks using mind maps , an issue which we discussed last week. Today we’re going to address the second step in the process, which is setting the...
• Decomposing Tasks with Mind Maps
  Published 3 October 2008
  Many projects are delivered late —one of the key reasons being that the tasks assigned to team members are too broad or vague. You might be asking yourself “what’s wrong with broad tasks?” As I answered in my most recent post,...
• How to Plan Presentations Using Mind Maps
  Published 28 July 2008
  If any of you read Dumb Little Man , a popular productivity blog, you might have read my guest blog entry on Wednesday entitled " 5 Steps to Planning an Effective Presentation ." One of the points that I touched on in that article was how mind maps are...
• Screencast: Planning Effective Presentations Using Mind Maps
  Published 25 July 2008
  In this screencast by Kenneth Roberts you will learn how to quickly plan an effective presentations using Mind Maps . If you'd like to read our complementary PDF "Working Smarter with Mind Maps for Presentation Planning" then download it here . --> This...
• Mind Maps - For Communication or Organization?
  Published 24 July 2008
  I started a conversation over on the SmartDraw forums yesterday about this topic: are mind maps primarily an organization tool or a communication tool? I use mind maps constantly; basically whenever I need to organize my thoughts, I use a mind map . I...
• Four Techniques I Use to be a Better Manager
  Published 22 May 2008
  When I founded SmartDraw.com I was a software developer not a manager. Not that this mattered much because the only person I needed to manage at the time was me! As the company grew, management was "thrust upon me", and I learned four techniques I still...

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